George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn, Glastonbury
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 Location within Somerset
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| Town or city | Glastonbury |
| Country | England |
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| Completed | 15th century |
The George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, was built in the late 15th century to accommodate visitors to Glastonbury Abbey. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.[1] It is the oldest purpose built public house in the South West of England.[2] Having once been the Pilgrims' Inn of Glastonbury Abbey, by the mid-nineteenth century the building was known as the George Hotel.[3] The current name preserves both.
The front of the three-storey building is divided into three tiers of panels with traceried heads. Above the right of centre entrance arch are three carved panels bearing the coats of arms of the Abbey and of King Edward IV.[1]
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George Hotel, Glastonbury. Originally the Pilgrims' Inn of the Abbey. A gatehouse-type inn, stone faced, panelled, three-storied and embattled with a grand set of chambers on the first floor, taller than the others.[4]
The first record of the building is from 1439 when the tenant was N. Kynge. In 1493 Abbot John Selwood gave a "new" building to the abbey chamberlain.[5]
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- ↑ Rev. John Williamson, Glastonbury abbey: its history and ruins (1865), p. 69
- ↑ John Steane, The Archaeology of Medieval England and Wales (1985), p. 118
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