Spread Eagle Inn
Names
- Spread Eagle Inn
- Spread Eagle Coffee House & Hotel
Street/Area/District
- Gracechurch Street
Maps & Views
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Spread Eagle Inn
- 1799 London (Horwood): Spread Eagle Inn
Descriptions
from London Signs, by Bryant Lillywhite (1972)
1241 “The Spread Eagle in Gracious Street.” [Gracechurch St.] 1636–66 the Spread Eagle stood on the fringe of the great Fire 1666; Spread Eagle Inn Gracechurch Street 1671–1740s; in 1746 on east side of Gracechurch Street, with passage way to Fish market; 1746–1819; Spread Eagle Coffee House & Hotel 1819–24; Inn 1826–1865. See No. 13611.
13611 Spread Eagle“ in Greene Yard” c1648–60s. Green Yards are known in Whitecross-street Cripplegate; Upper East Smithfield, and another, probably this one, “within Leadenhall”. Possibly same as Spread Eagle Gracechurch street, east side, from which inn-yard a passage joined the Fish, Flesh, Hide, and Herb markets of Leadenhall.
from the Grub Street Project (2006–present)
The Spread Eagle Inn, Gracechurch Street. See also "Spread Eagle Inn and Yard."