Bury St Edmunds Fountain
listed building grade II
last updated May 30th, 2020.
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Bury St Edmunds Fountain
also traded as Heart And Hand, Heart In Hand
East, 52.24373,0.71282
closed 1906
opened about 1748
80 Whiting St
grid reference TL 853 640
It's shown (though not named) on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
The Fountain has been reported at 81 Whiting Street (in 1869-79) and at 80 Whiting Street (by 1888).
The building dates from the late 18th or early 19th century.
Gallery
Masons' Arms 0.02 mile
Oakes Barn 0.06 mile
Nutshell 0.08 mile
Corn Exchange bar 0.08 mile
Vespers 0.09 mile
Nethergate Bury St. Edmunds 0.10 mileHistorical interest
To be lett, the Fountain, ready furnish'd, in the Church-Gate-Street, St Edmund's Bury, with good Coach-Houses and Stables, a very good Brewing-Office. Enquire at the House.Ipswich Journal, July 23rd 1748***
To be sold, a Freehold Messuage, in the Church-Gate-Street, Bury St Edmunds, and formerly the Fountain Tavern, containing nine Rooms on a Floor, with two excellent Wine Vaults, and Cellars under the whole House, a very large Yard, with Coach-House and Stables, well walled-in, and May, at small Expense, be made very convenient for a Gentleman, or a Tradesman...Enquire of Mr. Philip Winterflood on the Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds.Ipswich Journal, June 4th 1768***
Landlords
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NOTE: A messuage equates to a dwelling-house and may include outbuildings, orchard, curtilage or court-yard and garden - this may have been an earlier structure to the current property.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
