The Angel Hotel, Monmouth

The Angel Hotel, Church Street, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, south-east Wales is a Grade II listed building.

[3] This site began life as Robert le Ffrere's shop around 1240, rented by him for one pound of cumin paid annually.

It was said that the lamp was still burning two hundred years later, but by 1613 the shop had become the brew house for St Mary's Priory Church, Monmouth.

In 1804, Charles Heath was plainly impressed by the inn, since he wrote: "The Angel Inn kept by Mrs Pugh, has long been a house of great respectability, and frequented by the mercantile travellers of the kingdom, whose business connects them with the trading part of the borough, - and is but justice to add, that her kind attention to her guests, has long secured her the highest place in their good opinion".

[3] The inn was nearly destroyed in 1857 when a disgruntled jockey, who had been beaten at Monmouth Races, tried to set fire to the winning horse which had been stabled there.