Golden Lion, Fulham

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The Golden Lion, 57 High Street, Fulham, London SW6 3JJ

The Golden Lion is a

Bishop Bonner
.

History

Faulkner, in his History of Fulham, supposes the original mansion to have been of the time of Henry VII; and that it was the residence of Bishop Bonner. James Dugham states that it was undoubtedly a "princely residence".[1] After its conversion into an inn, it was frequented by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.[2] The original Golden Lion was pulled down in April 1836.[3] The house which was subsequently rebuilt in April 1836 carried inscriptions on its two chimneys; a picture of the towers appeared in the Gentlemen's Magazine in June 1838.[4] Subsequent to its demolition, John Powell Powell sold it to Street. It was also the repository of the "arms and accouterments" of the old Fulham Volunteers. The Bachelors Club also held its meetings at the Golden Lion. After Powell, the inn was owned by Mrs Ann Sophia Blake and then by Colonel Edward Harwood. A private road from the Golden Lion led to the Burlington Road.[5] Before its demolition, in 1820 it was cited as the oldest house in Fulham.[6]

In the 1970s The Golden Lion pub became known as a rock music venue and a meeting place for the British rock band

ELPs' nearby Manticore studios.[9]
It ceased music listings in the mid-1980s when the managing pub group was re-organised.

Architecture

Original building

The Old Golden Lion Public House featured architecture of the

Southam House, Lord Ellenborough's seat, near Cheltenham.[3]

The general character of the original structure was distinguished by long windows divided into numerous lights by massive mullions and transoms. An apartment on the principal storey contained a pointed arched fireplace, enriched panelling of oak, and a bay window, together with its size, being larger than the other apartments, would prove this to have been the grand room of the house. Heavy beams of chestnut crossed the ceiling, supported by a slender pillar at the intersection. Some apartments, south of this principal room, had been disused for many years, the windows being partly blocked up.[3] The low pointed arched doorway was about two feet six inches in width.[3]

A room on the east side was wainscoted and panelled in a plain style; a long window extended the whole length of the east end of the apartment, and a thick beam crossed the ceiling, supported at each end by rude pieces of timber. The fireplace was highly enriched by caryatid figures, and carved work of oak-foliage in low relief ornamented the stone mantle. The fireplace in the apartment immediately under this on the basement floor was ornamented. The upper rooms were lofty and airy, the space usually divided off into lofts being open to the roof—showing the heavy beams and girders in all their rude simplicity, the windows small and near the roof, the doorways narrow and low, and formed roughly of unplaited boards—opening by a wooden latch and spring.[3]

In the apartment on the south side of the hall was a trap door, which opened onto a short flight of winding stairs leading into a vaulted cellar, built of brick with courses of stone, having a recess on the north side. An arched doorway of stone faced a flight of stone steps leading to the back part of the building. This vault was used for many years, and was commonly known as " Bishop Bonner's Dungeon."[3] The east view of the mansion presented a more irregular front than the west.

References

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review" (1838)
  1. ^ Dugdale, James (1819). The New British Traveller: Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales; Exhibiting ... an ... Account, Historical, Topographical, and Statistical, of this ... Portion of the British Empire ... Interspersed with Biographical Particulars of Eminent and Remarkable Persons. J. Robins & Company. p. 460.
  2. ^ Walford, Edward (1878). "Fulham". Retrieved 20 June 2013 – via British History Online.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review (Public domain ed.). 1838. pp. 600–.
  4. ^ Edward Cave; John Nichols (1847). The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868]. pp. 303–.
  5. ^ Charles James Fèret (1900). Fulham old and new: being an exhaustive history of the ancient parish of Fulham. The Leadenhall press, ltd. pp. 85–.
  6. ^ Bew, John (1820). The ambulator; or, The stranger's companion in a tour round London, collected by a gentleman. p. 112.
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  8. ^ "Live listings: Golden Lion venue: 57 Fulham High Street, Fulham, London SW6 3JJ". Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  9. ^ Daryl, Easly (31 July 2015). "Manticore Studios". Retrieved 5 November 2018.

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