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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NE 1184 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | The Three Cups. 18 Broad Street (south side of junction with Lady Woottons Green) |
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Summary
An inn which had several different names but was in existance from 1692 to 1923 on Broad Street.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1531 5784 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NE |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- INN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1692 AD? to 1923 AD)
Full description
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The Canterbury UAD states that there is a Public House shown on the 1st edition O. S. Map 1874 at 18 Broad Street, at the junction with Lady Woottons Green, on the opposite side to that of Diocesan House (built after World War II). It appears that the Public House, The Three Cups had several names during its long history. A study of the Canterbury Street Directories concerning Broad Street lists the different names given to The Three Cups inn.
The 1692 Ebblewhite List of Licensed inns in Canterbury listed No. 18 Broad Street as The Chequer Inn. In 1846/7 the Licence List names the inn Red Rover. The directory for the County of Kent by Samuel Bagshaw names the innkeeper as Thomas Munns. By 1849 it had changed to Ethlebert's Tavern. For a short time it was known as The Woolsack. In Bedwell's Directory of 1888-1889 the Public House is listed as The Three Cups, Broad Street, with J. Whittaker as innkeeper; by 1905 Arthur Dobson was landlord of The Three Cups in the same building. The directory of 1920 names Mr D W Stanley as innkeeper of 18 Broad Street, Three Cups and he was probably the last because the inn closed in 1923, the premises then becoming one of residential / small cottage industry useage. The Three Cups Public House is not listed in Kelly's Directory for 1931, thus confirming it's closure.
**Note Willmot (1992, p. 72) incorrectly places the site of the former Three Cups Public House as that of the modern post-war Diocesan House and therefore that part of his study should be ignored. (J. Willson)
Ordnance Survey, 1874, 1st Edition Map of Canterbury 1874 (Map). SKE30106.
Kelly's Directory, 1931, Kelly's Directory of Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay, & with map (Article in serial). SKE29963.
Wilmot, E., 1992, Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29747.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Monograph: Wilmot, E.. 1992. Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury. |
| --- | Article in serial: Kelly's Directory. 1931. Kelly's Directory of Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay, & with map. |
| --- | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1874. 1st Edition Map of Canterbury 1874. |
