Historic pub
The Blackfriar
The Black Friar is a Grade II* listed pub at 174 Queen Victoria Street, Blackfriars, built about 1875 on the site of a medieval Dominican (Black Friars) friary and remodelled around 1905 by the architect Herbert Fuller-Clark; it is famous for its Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau interior of marble, mosaic and bronze reliefs of jovial friars.
£6.50Pravha
Listed by Pint Prices, collected 2 October 2026.
Photo: Love Art Nouveau, CC BY 2.0
On record
- Date
- Built 1875
- Listing
- Grade II*
- Borough
- City of London
The lead above is cited from Wikipedia.
The Black Friar was nearly lost to redevelopment in the 1960s and was saved by a preservation campaign associated with the poet Sir John Betjeman; its interior is on CAMRA's National Inventory of historic pub interiors.
Cited from CAMRA
