Excerpt from The Church of the Knights Templars in London: A Description of the Fabric and Its Contents, With a Short History of the Order
The history of the Knights Templars and their architectural work is distributed over many volumes by many writers, English and foreign, ancient and modern. My duty has chiefly been to collect the scattered material, and to condense it within a handbook subject to the necessary limitations of a series. It has been impossible to include the long bibliography drawn upon in the compilation; but a list is appended of the most modern and accessible books to which the reader may be referred for more detailed information than is here given him on particular parts of the extensive subject. Of these it would be unpardonable not to make special mention of the works by my immediate predecessors, viz., Mr. T. Henry Baylis, K.C., and Mr. Hugh H. L. Bellot, M.A., B.C.L., the first of whom has devoted himself more particularly to the ecclesiastical, and the second to the legal and literary associations of the Temple, each having materially reduced the labours of any one attempting to follow his example. The historic study has been supplemented by repeated visits to the Temple Church, in order to verify previous accounts, and occasionally to correct them, by actual measurement and observation. Here the verger in daily attendance, Mr. A. F. Stone, has given me much useful help, and called attention to certain "unconsidered trifles" which are probably here described for the first time.
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