The Spread Eagle - Wandsworth High Street, London, UK
N 51° 27.400 W 000° 11.541
30U E 695054 N 5704349
The "Spread Eagle" public house is on the south side of Wandsworth High Street just a couple of minutes' walk south east from the Ram Brewery.
Waymark Code: WMJMVA
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/06/2013
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The pub sign hangs from the wall of the pub. The picture
is an aerial shot looking down upon a country field. To the top of the picture a
fence can be seen with a rabbit hole visible in the undergrowth that is around
the fence. Just short of the hole is a rabbit, or is it a hare, making for the
hole. Diagonally across the picture is the shadow of an eagle with wings spread.
Although the eagle cannot be seen the menace is obvious and the question to be
asked is "did the rabbit escape"?
The pub is Grade II listed with the entry at the
English Heritage website telling us:
A late 19th Century public house
with a good interior. It is of 3-storeys comprising a 4-bay centre flanked
by advanced quoined end-pavilions. Red brick with stone dressings and tiled
roof. Above stone stallrisers a glazed ground floor of leaded lights is
framed by a fanciful pilaster order supporting the fascia. An iron and glass
porch projects from the main entrance. The upper floors carry a Flemish
Renaissance-type reticulation of pilasters and bandcourses, framing the
windows and rising to discontinuous cornices. The 2 exterior angles of each
end-pavilion carry fanciful stumpy obelisks. The west pavilion is crowned by
a 4-storey Dutch gable with sunflower plaques in moulded brick. In the
interior the saloon bar is backed by a wall of etched mirror-glass panels
with delicate ribbon and foliage motifs, the whole giving a brilliant
effect. The good modern canopy over the counter houses glass panels from a
roof light painted with birds and foliage.