George's Chapel or George's Meeting House was built in 1760 (the year of the coronation of

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) as a

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chapel. It was sold in 1987 and first became an antiques centre before being sold to

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, who re-opened it as a pub in 2005, preserving many of the original features. It is a grade I

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