87 South Road

Faversham

Above photo, 2009.

Sign above left 1991, sign right, June 1992. With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Above matchbox, circa 1980s, kindly sent by Debi Birkin.

Listed as number 26 in the 1881 census and Ospringe Road in 1882. The pub closed its door in the 1990s and is now a private house.

The pub was built near the site of the town gallows. The name is probably unique in England, but is actually a corruption of St Agnes' Cross, which once stood there and was a stopping-place for the Rogationtide processions which passed through the town.

The building gained a Grade 2 listing on 27 September 1989.

LICENSEE LIST

SMEAD G 1853+ Shepherd Neame Brewery records

SPILLETT William 1855-61+ (age 53 in 1861)

SPILLETT Elizabeth 1871-74+ (widow age 63 in 1871)

SPILLETT Harry 1877+ Shepherd Neame Brewery records

SPILLETT Thomas 1881-82+ (age 43 in 1881)

CROXFORD Henry 1888-91+ (age 42 in 1891)

HOUGHTON William J 1903-13+

CURLING Frank 1922+

GOLDING Ronald C B 1930+

DAVY William Thomas 1938+

???? Joan & Roy 1980s?

https://pubwiki.co.uk/StAnnsCross.shtml

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/stannescross.html

From the Post Office Directory 1855

From Melville's Directory 1858

Census

From the Post Office Directory 1874

From the Post Office Directory 1882

Swinock's Faversham Directory 1888

From the Post Office Directory 1903

From the Kelly's Directory 1903

Guide to Faversham 1908

From the Post Office Directory 1913

From the Post Office Directory 1922

From the Post Office Directory 1930

From the Post Office Directory 1938