George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn
The George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn is an inn in Glastonbury, England, built around 1470 . It initially served as accommodation for the guests of the nearby Glastonbury Abbey . The building owner was John Selwood - the abbot of the monastery at the time. The building is still used as a hotel and restaurant to this day.
The facade facing the High Street is of particular importance in terms of art history . Although its basic layout is still late Gothic , it is already worked with echoes of the emerging Renaissance . Evidence of this is on the one hand the strongly right-angled structure of the facade elements and on the other hand the pronounced horizontal emphasis, especially on the cornices . The middle of the three coat of arms fields above the portal shows the coat of arms of King Edward IV.
The hotel has 15 rooms, 8 of which are still in the historical part of the building.
In 1933 the restaurant found its way into the main work of the Welsh writer John Cowper Powys Glastonbury Romance . Since 1950 it has been under the highest level (Grade I) of the English monument protection .
literature
- Harald Busch , Bernd Lohse : Architecture of the Renaissance in Europe , Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1960.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse: Architecture of the Renaissance in Europe , p. 118.
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 51.2 ″ N , 2 ° 43 ′ 2.9 ″ W.