Henry HAVILAND - Fleece Inn Gloucester (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Sunday, July 29, 2007, 23:47 (6325 days ago) @ ilikesox

The monastic connection could well be with the famous Fleece in Westgate St Gloucester.

Fleece Inn, Westgate Street - later an hotel

19 Westgate Street in 1936.Sadly closed in 2002(?)

1830 Henry Haviland Landlord

HISTORY: the undercroft, ( stone vaulted cellar) an exceptionally fine and early surviving
example of its type which bears comparison with examples elsewhere in the country and
in Northern Europe, is the surviving part of a merchant's house in a property which originally
extended westward to Bull Lane, and recorded in the St Peter's Abbey rental of 1455 as a
great tenement that had belonged to Benedict the Cordwainer in the reign of Henry III.

The property is believed to have been developed as an inn in c1500 by the abbey, and is
first recorded as the Golden Fleece Inn in 1673. Considerable alterations and repairs
were recorded between 1772 and 1778.