Welcome to Two Temple Place

‘For splendor of both ornament and conception,
it’s hard to beat.’
The Daily Telegraph

‘Lavish, quite bonkers… and rather endearing…’
Time Out

‘One of those secret universes… ornate and slightly crazed…’

The Observer

Two Temple Place is London’s first venue to specifically showcase publicly-owned art from around the UK. The building itself is one of London's hidden architectural gems, an extraordinary late Victorian mansion built by William Waldorf Astor on Embankment.

The inaugural exhibition is in partnership with the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, which is closed for re-furbishment until July 2012. For full details please see our Exhibitions page.

To keep up-to-date with our latest news and events, please email your name to info@twotempleplace.org

Two Temple Place is owned by and houses the charitable trust - The Bulldog Trust. For further information please see www.bulldogtrust.org

To find out more about the William Morris Gallery Development Project visit:
www.walthamforest.gov.uk/william-morris.htm

Visitor Information

For full details please see our Visit page.

Address

2 Temple Place
London
WC2R 3BD
T: 020 7836 3715

Admission to the gallery is FREE

Opening Times

10.00 - 16.30 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
12.00 - 17.00 Sunday
We are closed on Tuesdays.

Please note that we are closed on 24, 25, 26, 31 December and 1 January. We will be open on Monday 2 January 12.00 – 17.00.

Events

We are holding a series of events to complement both the exhibition and the Bulldog Trust’s own charitable purposes.

12/01/12 – Morris influenced artist David Mabb talks at the Courtauld Institute of Art

19/01/12 – From Street to Stage: an evening with the Royal Ballet’s Thiago Soares

23/01/12 - Morris and the Modern Songwriter, with the London Centre for Contemporary Music

25/01/12 – Dance United perform ‘Speak but one word to me’

26/01/12 – Dance United perform ‘Speak but one word to me’

27/01/12 – Dance United perform ‘Speak but one word to me’

Please click here to download our latest events programme.

William Morris:
Story, Memory, Myth

28th October 2011- 29th January 2012

The inaugural exhibition looks at how William Morris told stories through pattern and poetry. It will examine the tales that were most important to him, such as the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Norse saga, Arthurian legend and Greek myth.

Morris returned to the same stories throughout his artistic career, and this exhibition explores his continued fascination by arranging the works according to the tale they tell rather than their medium. more>