COACH AND HORSES (High Street) Pub of Canterbury

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Sort file:- Canterbury, April, 2024.

Page Updated:- Tuesday, 02 April, 2024.

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Paul Skelton

Earliest 1825-

Coach and Waggon

Latest 1828

High Street

Canterbury

Picture above pre 1827 showing the "George and Dragon" left. and the "Coach and Waggon" offices right.

Above painting by Thomas Sidney Cooper, shows the "Coach and Horses" in the High Street in 1827.

Above picture showing the full painting.

The following appears alongside Sidney Cooper's 1827 lithographs in a publication called "Lost Canterbury." The caption reads "...The Coach & Horses and the George & Dragon.

This lithograph features two inns which have long since disappeared. The Coach and Horses, on the far right, is appropriately shown with a coach outside, all set for departure. The Coach and Horses appears to be a typical vernacular building of the mid-17th century but adapted to accommodate a coach entrance that doubtless gave access to stables at the rear. The Coach and Horses was demolished in the mid-19th century (it does not appear on the 25"/1mile 1874 OS map of Canterbury) and was replaced by a shop building..."

Above painting 1825, titled "Old Inn" and gave the information that it formerly occupied the site adjoining the Royal Museum.

I do not know how old this pub is and obviously predates the painting of 1827, but in 1828 the pub was demolished to make way for the Regency Church. The yellow-brick building was closed in 1902 when the parish amalgamated with that of St. Alphage, but the building was used as a hall till about 1935 when that was also demolished. The premises is now the site of the Canterbury library.

I am assuming that this was a pub, but further research has listed the building as Coach and Waggon Offices.

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