1914 - Hung, Drawn & Quartered Pub - Great Tower Street, London, UK
N 51° 30.573 W 000° 04.841
30U E 702575 N 5710532
This 1914 dated building is located at the junction of Great Tower Street and Byward Street close to the Tower of London.
Waymark Code: WMN71Q
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/08/2015
Views: 2
The building was erected in 1914 and is confirmed by the date on the Byward Street face of the building that tells us:
Erected
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The building was erected as part of Christ's Hospital School but this corner is now a public house with the grusome name "Hung, Drawn and Quartered".
The Pubs website tells us:
The name of this imposing building is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the deeply unpleasant torture meted out on selected inmates at the Tower of London close by; there’s even a macabre reminder in the shape of a hangman’s noose dangling in the bar. Built in 1914, this Grade II listed building was, until fairly recently, part of the historic Christ’s Hospital School. For all the implied unpleasantness the HD&Q is a pleasant and comfortable pub, popular with city workers and tourists alike. It serves good Fullers ales and reasonably priced pub style food.
As mentioned, the building is Grade II listed with the entry at the English Heritage website telling us:
Dated 1914. 3 storeys plus dormers in tiled mansard. 5 windows. Red brick with raked joints and Portland stone dressings, in later C17 manner. Channelled ground storey with pedimented stone doorway and passage to west. Order of Ionic pilasters to 2 storeys above with stone entablature and brick parapet, swept up at the centre on either side of a narrow attic or lucerne with segmental pediment. 3 window return with date.
There is an amusing plaque erected on the Byward Street face of the pub that tells us:
I went to see
Major General Harrison
Hung Drawn and Quartered.
He was looking as cheerful
as any man could
in that condition.
Samuel Pepys
13th October 1661
Good to know that Pepys had a sense of humour even though it has nothing to do with the age of the building!
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