Site of Butcher's Arms, Coventry road, Fillongley
Description of this historic site
Site of historic public house situated on west side of Coventry road.
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1 Site of Butcher’s Arms, Coventry road, Fillongley.
Site of historic public house situated on west side of Coventry road, 20 metres south of the site of the butcher’s shop. Recorded on F. White & Co.’s database, which shows it in existence in 1874.
Listed building (DWA423) gives date of Late C16.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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There is a Butcher’s Arms public house mentioned in the 1831 riot case (deposition of Charles Walsall in support of Thomas Burbury’s case – the alleged ringleader in the Beck’s Mill riot of 1831). A scuffle broke out there when the key witness against the weavers (accused of riot and machine breaking & burning down Beck’s house and mill) was found to have misrepresented who he was. His credibility as a witness was, as a a result, greatly impugned once it was now known that he had certainly perjured himself at the trial. This was important in helping Burbury secure a reprieve from the death sentence. Fillongley is only 10 kms away from Coventry. Could this be one and the same Butcher’s Arms?
I’ve now discovered the Butcher’s Arms – it was at 11 New Buildings in Coventry itself rather than this one located at Fillongley. Butchers loved their ale it seems.
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