The New Inn, 16 Northgate Street,

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, hotel and restaurant. It is the most complete surviving example of a medieval courtyard inn with galleries in Britain, and is a Grade I

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. The announcement of

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's succession to the English throne was made from the Inn gallery in 1553.Later Tudors 1547 - 1603.
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This is Gloucestershire, 23 June 2009. Retrieved 27 June 2011.

History

The Inn was built in 1450 by John Twyning, a monk, as a hostelry for the former Benedictine Abbey of St Peter. It is on the site of an earlier inn. After the dissolution of St Peter's the inn passed to the Dean and Chapter of

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and was leased to various inn holders until it was sold in 1858. Stories that the inn was built to provide lodgings for pilgrims to the tomb of King Edward II were first recorded in the eighteenth century and may be incorrect. In 1553,

King Edward VI Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and King of Ireland, Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his thi ...

died and

was proclaimed Queen from the first floor gallery by the Abbot of Gloucester. It is thought that

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may have performed at the Inn with his company The Lord Chamberlain's Men as it is known that the company did visit and perform in the city. Inns were often used for theatrical performances in England ( Inn-yard theatre) and Spain ( Corral de comedias). At 1am on the 7 May 2018, a fire had started at the rear of the Inn which spread to several bedrooms on the second floor, the roof and the bar area and had expanded by 5.50am. Soon afterwards twelve fire engines throughout Gloucestershire had arrived to save the building with Police and Ambulances, It is believed nobody was injured in it.

Architecture

The timber frame of the large three-

storey A storey (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English) or story (American English), is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the wor ...

rectangular building is of oak with lathe and plaster rendered panels. Open jettied galleries look over the courtyard and form the entry to chambers on the upper floors. The west front in Northgate street forms seven bays, some of which are now used as separate shops, was altered in 1924. The Inn is entered through a carriage way from Northgate Street, and is the most complete surviving example of a medieval courtyard inn with galleries in Britain. Close to the entrance to the Inn in Northgate Street lies ''New Inn Lane'', which runs parallel to Eastgate Street and The Oxbode. Reportedly, it was originally called ''Pilgrims Lane''.

Today

Today the Inn is a restaurant, pub and 36 bedroomed hotel. There is also a coffee shop and two function rooms. The Inn is supposedly haunted with one unexplained event captured on CCTV in 2010.'Ghost' at Gloucester pub 'pushes pint off table'.
BBC Gloucestershire, 27 May 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2011.

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