| easting | 359,013 |
| northing | 173,066 |
| amended | 38873 |
| broad_term | Inn |
| class | Commercial |
| condition | |
| construction | |
| demolition | 1730 |
| extant | 0 |
| listed_building_grade | |
| listed_building_no | |
| monument_record_no | 1670M |
| monument_type | Inn |
| narrow_term | Inn |
| period_text | Medieval 1200-1540 |
| period | Med |
| roof | |
| label | The Swan, Mary le Port Street |
| address | Castle Park |
| description |
The Swan, located on the north side of Mary le Port Street. An inn named "le Swan" had been established on the site by 1463. It was leased to George Grey (who had leased the Three Cups in Wine Street from St. James Priory) by Nicholas Willyams, tailor, later a mayor of Bristol (in 1564) (Leech 1997, 102). Williams bequeathed the leases and interest of "the tenement called "the Swanne"" to his wife Joan in his will of 1 September 1565, and the building was then recorded still to be in the tenure of George Graye (Wadley 1886, 225). The property had been acquired by the foeffees of Trinity Hospital in Old Market by 1581. It remained an inn, however, throughout. The form of the building before the seventeenth century is unknown. However, a lane ran through the site between Mary le Port Street and Wine Street by 1615. An inventory of the property of the tenant Thomas Collier made in October 1647 recorded that the inn had eleven bedrooms, as well as two halls, the "Upper Hawll" and the "Lower Hawll", kitchen and hayloft (George & George 2002, 159-162). By 1670 the inn was known as the "White Swan." The property was subsequently acquired by the Bristol Corporation which sold it in 1730. The building was then demolished to allow the construction of "a Market Place for corn in Wine Street" (Leech 1997, 103) and this later became the Cheese Market. |
| Reference From | Property |
| dataset/bristolMonuments | exampleResource |
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