Equestrian
| Status: | Closed and demolished |
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| Address: | 124 Blackfriars Road, SE1 (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview) |
| London borough: | Southwark |
| Former name(s): | Equestrian Tavern Equestrian Coffee House |
| Former address: | [also listed as Surrey Theatre (1839), and as St Georges Road (1815)] |
| Historical parish: | Southwark St George the Martyr |
| Dates open: |
by 1775-c1941
rebuilt c1825 demolished 10 May 1941 |
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| Notes: | This was attached to the "Surrey Theatre" (or "Surrey Vaudeville Theatre") upon rebuilding. It may have been renamed around that time, but there are Sun Fire Office insurance records going back to 1790 with the name as the "Equestrian Coffee House". It it suggested on the Pubs History site that the "Magdalen Coffee House" was on the site, but it is mentioned in a 1797 Sun Fire Office insurance record as being at the end of Dover Street (later Little Surrey Street, now Davidge Street), suggesting it was sited to the north, closer to the intersection with Friar Street (modern Webber Street), on the other side of the road, opposite the former site of the Magdalen Hospital (now Peabody dwellings). There are Sun Fire office records of a "Circus Coffee House" (between 1791-1801), which must have been either in the same building or very close by, as the site of the Surrey Theatre is shown as the "Royal Circus" on Horwood's 1799 map. |
| Sources: | Dates/Rebuilding/Demolished: Pub Wiki OS 1895/1912 PO 1839 (as "Equestrian Coffee House")/1841 (as "Equestrian coffee house")/1856 (as "Equestrian Tavern")/1869 (as "Equestrian Tavern")/1882 (as "Equestrian Tavern")/1895 (as "Equestrian")/1915 (as "Equestrian") |
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| References: | MS 11936/368/569838 (as "Equestrian Coffee House") MS 11936/373/584720 (as "Equestrian Coffee House") MS 11936/444/834763 (as "Equestrian Coffee House") MS 11936/466/911465 (as "Equestrian Coffee House") QS2/6/1780/Eph/50 (as "Magdalen Coffee House") |
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