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Sudbury White Hart
Sudbury White Hart
East, 52.03788,0.72953
Closed: before 1840
Market Hill
grid reference TL 873 412
This historic Inn had frontages onto both Sepulchre Street (now Gainsborough Street) and the Market Hill. It was advertised to let[1] in the Ipswich Advertiser in 1766, when it was already regarded as ancient.
NOT to be confused with another pub of the same name located in Cross Street.
The building was completely destroyed in a serious fire early in September 2015. Ironically it was only from reports of the fire that we first positively identified the correct building, so we never got a photograph of it.
Rowland Taylor, the rector of Hadleigh spent a night here en-route to Aldham common where he was burnt at the stake in February 1555 (during Mary's reign as she tried to being Counter Reformation to England) - he was the third Protestant to be burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions.[1]
Historical interest
To be lett at Sudbury the White Hart Inn, an antient roadhouse newly fronted, it stands in full view of the market place and joins two great roads that go through the town, it has four parlours, partly wainscoated and hung with paper-6 chambers-godd assembly room-4 garrets-bar room-large kitchen-stabling for 30-40 horses. Enquire of Mr Barnard. N. B…
Landlords
Footnote
[1] All told during the Marian Persecutions some 284 Protestants (56 of them women) were executed in the UK; 30 died in prison, but the majority were burned alive sometime between 1555 and 1558.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** report reproduced with kind permission from Foxearth & District Local History Society)
(*** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(**** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)