The Blackfriar is a

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public house on Queen Victoria Street in

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, London. It was built in about 1875 on the site of a former medieval Dominican

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, and then remodelled in about 1905 by the architect Herbert Fuller-Clark. Much of the internal decoration was done by the sculptors

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. The building was nearly demolished during a phase of redevelopment in the 1960s, until it was saved by a campaign spearheaded by poet

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. It is on the

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Gallery

Exterior

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Interior

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External links

The Blackfriar website

References

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