Walker, Church Street, Butchers' Arms/Fountain Inn

HER Number:
15867

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walker, Church Street, Butchers' Arms/Fountain Inn

Place:
Walker

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Inn

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Became the Fountain Inn in the 1870s. A favourite of the miners from Fountain Pit. In the 1930s it was enlarged. In 1937 it was bought by Robert Deuchar for £3250. When Church Walk was built in the mid 1960s, the pub was demolished.

Easting:
292

Northing:
642

Grid Reference:
NZ292642

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Brian Bennison, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 42-3