Silver Cross Tavern

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The Silver Cross Tavern is a pub in the Whitehall borough of London .

history

The Silver Cross Tavern has been operating as a licensed licensed pub since 1674 - initially under the name The Garter - after previously serving as a brothel . The first owner was William Waad, a son of the politician Sir William Waad , who sold it to Joseph Craig in the first year of the license. Craig had also bought several other buildings in the area, but the Silver Cross Tavern was not associated with any of these buildings, now known as Craig's Court . The Earl of Harrington later bought the pub and rented it to the Earl of St Vincent in 1861 . In the 20th century, the pub was owned by the T&J Bernard chain , which sold it to Taylor Walker Pubs . The pub is popular with government officials and tourists because of its proximity to the UK government buildings and Trafalgar Square .

The BBC found in 1999 that the Silver Cross Tavern was the only legal brothel in Britain, although it is not currently in use as such, as the royal license granted by King Charles I was never revoked.

building

Silver Cross Tavern

A building on the property was part of St. Katherine's Hermitage and was originally built in the 13th century with lead paneled walls. The pub has undergone a number of renovations since then, the most recent in 1900. A barrel vault was put in for the bar shortly after it opened at a time when King Charles I was living in Whitehall. A new facade was erected in the Victorian era . The building with the red brick facade at the right or west end of the Craig Court building was given the address 37 Whitehall . In the 1990s, the pub was expanded to house numbers 33-35, which had previously been connected, with the last building added when the pub took over the building of a recently closed pizza restaurant. The expansion also included number 31 on the corner with Craig Court .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jason Cochran: Pauline Frommer's London: Spend Less, See More . John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 0470465115 , p. 239.
  2. ↑ Site of the Hermitage of St. Katherine - Survey of London: volume 16 (pp. 225-231) . British history.ac.uk. April 21, 1906. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Silver Cross . Taylor Walker. Archived from the original on August 22, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 26, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.taylor-walker.co.uk
  4. ↑ a b When the law is an ass . BBC News . November 17, 1999. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  5. ^ Silver Cross Tavern, 25 Charing Cross, St Martins in Fields . Pubs history. March 27, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  6. ^ Jo Swinnerton: The London Companion . Robson, 2004, ISBN 1861057997 , p. 119.
  7. ↑ Thomas Bruce Wheeler: London Secrets: London Guidebook For The First Time Visitor . iUniverse, 2003, ISBN 0595314759 , p. 104.

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '24.1 "  N , 0 ° 7' 37.6"  W.