In the Blackfriar

The Blackfriar pub.
This art-nouveau pub looks enticing from the outside, and is a treasure inside. The interior of this busy pub is lined with entertaining bas-reliefs by the artist Henry Poole (1873-1928). The pub was built in about 1875, and then re-modelled in about 1905, when art-nouveau (Jugendtstil) was very much in vogue. It is a most attractive pub.