Pubs and inns in Grantham

)[3][4][5][6] The Blue Bull, Cow, Dog, and Fox are/were all in Colsterworth, which was part of Grantham soke when it was enclosed in 1805–1808.

No pub was named after his son Frederick Tollemache, Liberal member of Parliament for the constituency, by the Manners family, although a statue to him exists in Grantham town.

[5] However, in the 20th century the building of the defunct Co-operative department store in the town (in St Catherine's Road) was taken over by the Wetherspoons franchise and turned into a public house, The Tollemache.

The 1802 election was fiercely contested by Manners, and after three days the results were:[10] Welby (who took the seat) and Thornton were supported by Lord Brownlow and the Duke of Rutland.

[13] Other rarities to have survived in the Inn include the stone twin-panel vaulting in the interior ceilings of the bay windows.

The Angel thus lays claim to being the oldest surviving Inn in England, sitting on what was once the Great North Road.

"I have read a document drawn up at Grantham, October 15, 1291," he wrote, "which certainly refers to the property, as belonging to the Knights Templars, but not as being a Preceptory of the Order.".

The Sheriff of Lincolnshire is therefore commanded to warn twelve discreet and trustworthy men, Knights or others, upon whose fidelity he can best rely, to meet him at Lincoln, on the 7th of January 1308, very early in the mornin; at which place and time the Sheriff is to be in person to do and perform what shall be contained in the said write, and also what he shall be directed to do by the bearer of it.

All their lands, goods, tenements, chattels, charters, writings, and muniments, are to be seized and secured, and an inventory of them made, in the presence of the Custos of the Templar's house, and two witnesses.

[15] Street also records the Angel Inn as having been used to hold court by Kings John (on 23 February 1213) and Richard the Third (on 19 October 1483).

[15] At the time of Richard III, the large room over the gateway of the Angel Inn was called La Chambre le Roi (the King's Chamber).

The evidence for Richard III's visit he took from Rymer's Fædera, as quoted in Halstead's History of Richard the Third, which said that the Great Seal, used for issuing a death warrant, was delivered to the king by messenger "in a chamber called the King's chamber in the Angel Inn, in the presence of the Bishops of Worcester, Durham, St David's, and St Asaph, and of the Earls of Northumberland and Huntingdon, and of Sir Thomas Stanley".

The Blue Pig pub, on the corner of Vine Street and Swinegate. The ground storey is stone-faced, with the upper floor, overhanging the lower, having an exposed timber frame. [ 1 ] The timbers were exposed, by removing rendering that had previously covered them, in the early 1930s. [ 2 ]
The Blue Bull Inn at 64–65 Westgate
The front of what is now The Angel and Royal Hotel. Despite the many royal visits in previous centuries, the "and Royal" was only finally added to the name in 1866, when the inn was visited by the then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII . [ 12 ] La Chambre le Roi at the time of Richard III extended for the whole of the first floor of the Inn, with the two mullioned bay windows for both ground and first floors, that can be seen here, at each end of the room. [ 13 ]
The courtyard and range of the Angel and Royal, pictured here, are 18th-century additions to the mediæval Inn, replacing portions of the earlier Inn, such as external stairways, some galleries, barns to the rear, and a timber-built wing to the right of the front. [ 13 ]
The pub sign of The Beehive, at 10 Castlegate
The George at Grantham was built in 1780 and is an example of Georgian architecture of the time, including the lofty arched entryway for coaches that was used for such inns starting in 1760. [ 19 ] The date carved on the keystone of the central entranceway is 1789. [ 13 ]