The Blackfriar Public House London
This wedge-shaped building narrowly squeezed into a junction by Blackfriars Bridge was built in 1875 on a site once occupied by the Blackfriars Monastery. The outside was decorated by Henry Poole (1873-1928) in 1903, and the ground floor interior remodelled in 1905 by H. Fuller Clark, using multi-coloured marble, mosaics, bronze reliefs of jolly-looking monks, and decorative touches such as the elaborate fire-basket with goblin ends. The monks are shown singing carols, collecting fish and eels for their meatless days, and so on. One is just about to boil an egg. An extension to the main saloon is lined with marble and alabster with more bronze reliefs and mosaics, and motifs such as "Haste is Slow" and "Industry is All."
Size: 3662px × 5580px
Location: 174, Queen Victoria St, London, EC4V 4EG
Photo credit: © setchfield / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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