Robin Hood Inn, Monmouth

124 and 126, Monnow Street, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a public house of late medieval origins.

[1] It is constructed in stone, with a wide, four-centre doorway dating to the fifteenth century, and is a rare medieval survival in Monmouth.

[2] After the Reformation, the town was a centre for Catholicism[3] and the landlord in the 1770s, Michael Watkins, allowed Mass to be celebrated in an upper room of the pub.

The Penal Laws against Catholics were in force until the Papists Act 1778, and Watkins was amongst those who successfully petitioned Monmouth magistrates to allow a building that would become St Mary's Roman Catholic Church.

This public house and the church that Michael Watkins lobbied for are two of the 24 buildings in the Monmouth Heritage Trail.

The fifteenth-century doorway