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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 1654 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | The Rose & Crown. 76 St Dunstan's Street |
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Summary
The Rose & Crown inn displays a long list of innkeepers displayed outside it from 1740. This building is still an inn today yet it is now known as The Blind Dog.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1447 5815 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- INN (Now, Post Medieval to Unknown - 1740 AD?)
Full description
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The Canterbury UAD states that this is a George Beer/Rigden/Fremlins/Whitbread inn.
A notice at the inn states that in 1801 the innkeeper was Jeremiah Quest. There is a long list of innkeepers displayed outside the inn listing all innkeepers from 1740 and there is only one named before Jeremiah Quest. That would have been quite an achievement in the 18th century.
The Rose & Crown was almost certainly first licensed in 1846 with Thomas Wanstall as innkeeper. Part of the present Rose & Crown is, however, on the site of what was the Star or Starr, licensed in the 18th century with the address 77-79 St. Dunstan's Street.
The Star was no longer listed as an inn in 1843. A Directory listed The Rose & Crown in 1878 with John Popkin as innkeeper.
Now (2003) the inn is known as The Blind Dog.
On 31st August 1914 a caution was given to the Rose & Crown for disorderly behaviour of soldiers frequenting the House and fighting after leaving.
Wilmot, E., 1988, Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29737.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Monograph: Wilmot, E.. 1988. Inns of Canterbury. |
