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Buildings in London: The Black Friar Pub

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The Black Friar Pub - photograph Image courtesy of Architectural Review

The Black Friar Pub

174 Queen Victoria Street
London
EC4V 4EG

Tel: + 44 (0)20 7236 5474

The Black Friar pub was built near the site of a medieval Dominican priory, where the monks were known as the Black Friars because of their black habits. It was converted from the ground floor of an earlier office block in 1905. The priory was the inspiration behind the pub design and decoration. Henry Poole gave the building's wedge-shaped exterior a façade decorated with the figures of friars. Continuing the theme inside, H. Fuller Clarke added marbled walls, pillared fireplaces and bas-reliefs of monks working and relaxing, along with mottoes such as 'Wisdom is Rare' and 'Silence is Golden'.