The Lamb and Flag | |
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Type | Public house |
Location | Rose Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2 |
Coordinates | 51°30′41.76″N0°7′32.16″W / 51.5116000°N 0.1256000°W |
Founded | 1772 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | THE LAMB AND FLAG PUBLIC HOUSE |
Designated | 15-Jan-1973 |
Reference no. | 1265122 |
The Lamb and Flag is a Grade II listed public house at Rose Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2. [1]
The building is erroneously said to date back to Tudor times, and to have been a licensed premises since 1623, but in fact dates from the early 18th century [2] , or according to its official listing, perhaps from 1688 [1] . The building became a pub in 1772. [2]
Situated in what was a violent area of Covent Garden, the pub's upstairs room once hosted bare-knuckle prize fights, [3] leading to it being nicknamed "The Bucket of Blood". [4] A plaque on the building commemorates an attack on John Dryden in a nearby alley in 1679, when Charles II sent men to assault Dryden in objection to a satirical verse against Louise de Kérouaille, Charles II's mistress. [5] Writer Charles Dickens frequented the pub in the 19th century.
Many of the internal fittings are Victorian woodwork or earlier, including a remaining partition, meriting the pub a maximum three-star rating as a Real Heritage Pub [6] .
The pub was refaced with brick in 1958 [7] . It has been operated by Fuller, Smith & Turner since 2011 [8] .
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