The Blackfriar
The Blackfriar, 2019
General information
Architectural styleArts and Crafts
Address174 Queen Victoria Street
Town or cityLondon, EC4
CountryUnited Kingdom
Completed1905
Design and construction
Architect(s)Herbert Fuller-Clark
Other designersHenry Poole (sculptor)
DesignationsGrade II* listed[1]
Website
www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/restaurants/london/theblackfriarblackfriarslondon

The Blackfriar is a Grade II* listed[1] public house on Queen Victoria Street in Blackfriars, London.[2]

It was built in about 1875 on the site of a former medieval Dominican friary,[3] and then remodelled in about 1905 by the architect Herbert Fuller-Clark. Much of the internal decoration was done by the sculptors Frederick T. Callcott & Henry Poole.[2]

The building was nearly demolished during a phase of redevelopment in the 1960s, until it was saved by a campaign spearheaded by poet Sir John Betjeman.[4] It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.[5]

Exterior

Interior


References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Black Friar public house (London).
  1. 1 2 Historic England. "Black Friar public house (1285723)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 Jephcote, Geoff Brandwood & Jane (2008). London heritage pubs : an inside story. St. Albans: Campaign for Real Ale. pp. 28–30. ISBN 9781852492472.
  3. ↑ "Black Friar pub : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London". Londonremembers.com. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "The Blackfriar | All London's Secrets Exposed". Discoveringsecretlondon.co.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  5. ↑ Brandwood, Geoff (2013). Britain's best real heritage pubs. St. Albans: CAMRA. p. 60. ISBN 9781852493042.

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