The Viaduct Tavern - Newgate Street. London, UK
N 51° 30.975 W 000° 06.109
30U E 701079 N 5711218
The Viaduct Tavern stands on the north side of Newgate Street at the junction with Giltspur Street. It is close to the Old Bailey and Barts hospital.
Waymark Code: WMK9JD
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/05/2014
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The sign hangs from the front of the pub and shows a scene with Holborn Viaduct at Farringdon Street level. Horses and carriages are shown passing under the bridge. The actual viaduct is about 250 metres north west of the pub.
The pub is a Grade II listed building with the entry at the English Heritage website telling us:
Public House. 1874-5; interior remodelled 1898-1900 by Arthur Dixon. Granite to ground floor; upper floor of gault brick with painted stone dressings; slate mansard roof; brick end stacks with moulded stone cornices. Curved corner site. Italianate style. 4-storeys; 6-window range with additional bay to ground floor. Ground floor articulated by grey and red granite piers with festooned Ionic capitals to red granite frieze with moulded grey cornices: three doorways with half-glazed double door set in recessed lobbies with bracketed semicircular arched arches to outer bays, all having relief carving in Flemish Renaissance style with Medallion portraits to spandrels of outer arches; 3-light plate-glass windows with similar relief craving to mullions and transoms. Plate-glass sashes to upper-floor windows set in raised architraves: relief-carved friezes and bracketed cornices to first-floor windows pedimental second-floor windows, and relief-carved frieze over third-floor windows divided by pilasters with foliate capitals; dentilled cornice; moulded cornices to dormer windows. Interior: good ground-floor bar interior, quadrant-shaped, with many original fittings, including cut and etched glass panels to fine Jacobethan-style counter and semicircular arched hood set in front of rear doorway with relief-carved panels; arcaded panelling to bar. Marbled wood piers to enriched plaster frieze with cherub heads, shell-coved cornice and strapwork ceiling. Wall to right has tall mirrors alternating with three fine paintings of Pre-Raphaelite style women by Hal, 1898-1900, all set in cream, green and orange marble and alabaster architraves. Included for its fine pub interior, particularly the exceptional paintings.