St Stephen's Tavern

St Stephen's Tavern
Former names	The Swan Tavern The Swan Hotel The Queen's Head
General information
Type	public house
Architectural style	French Renaissance
Address	10 Canon Row
Town or city	London
Coordinates	51°30′04″N 0°07′32″W
Opened	1875 (149 years ago) (1875)
Landlord	Hall & Woodhouse (current) Reid & Co
Website
Official website
References
Historic England (13 May 1983). "St Stephen's Tavern (Grade II) (1357232)". National Heritage List for England.

St Stephen's Tavern is a public house in the City of Westminster. It takes its name from St Stephen's Chapel in the nearby Palace of Westminster, which was used as the chamber for the House of Commons of England.

It is one of the six pubs around Parliament with a division bell to warn members of an impending vote.^[1]

Prime ministers who have patronised the pub include Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan.^[2][3]

The current building was built in 1875. There had been previous pubs on the site but they were demolished during the construction of Westminster tube station. The current pub closed in the 1980s when there was further extensive construction work for the Jubilee line and Portcullis House. It reopened in 2003 after extensive renovation.^[2]

References

1. Alec Latham (27 July 2016), A call to arms – the pub division bells of Westminster
2. "Wealth of history at St Stephens Tavern", Evening Standard, 22 September 2008
3. Paul Flynn (2012), How to be an MP, Biteback Publishing, p. 94, ISBN 9781849543019

External links

• Official website