George and Vulture Tavern
Names
- George and Vulture Tavern
Street/Area/District
- Lombard Street
Maps & Views
- 1748 Exchange Alley, Cornhill (Gentleman's Magazine): George and Vulture
- 1748 Exchange Alley, Cornhill (London Magazine): George and Vulture, Papworth
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
George and Vulture Tavern
On the north side of Lombard Street at the north end of George Yard, with a passage to St. Michael's Alley, and thence into Cornhill, another into Gracechurch Street and another through Castle Alley to Birchin Lane (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 162). In Langbourn Ward.
Further north than the George (q.v.).
West of St. Michael's House (Overall, p. 290).
"George and Vulture Alley" there in Strype, ed. 1755 and Boyle, 1799.
from London Signs, by Bryant Lillywhite (1972)
The George and Vulture. This odd sign-combination is first noticed in 1672, although “the Vlture in Cornhill” is known 1669–70, and probably came into being on the rebuilding of George yard after the great Fire 1666. The George Inn dating from 1348 and possibly earlier at the Lombard Street end of the yard was not rebuilt; but George yard was rebuilt “with very good Houses”. Before the Fire “The Live Vvlter” stood at the Cornhill end of the later-known George yard and by 1672 the rebuilt premises became known as the George and Vulture thus combining two earlier signs. But this does not account for the origin of at least six other George and Vulture signs known in London between the 1680s and 1890s, nor the present day George and Vulture tavern sign in Pitfield Street N.1.
1753 George and Vulture George yard Cornhill-Lombard Street 1672–1748 partly damaged in the Cornhill fire; c1748–1855. See George Inn No. 6987; The Live Vvlter No. 15732.