The Red Lion - Chesham, Bucks, UK
Posted by: Smithbats
N 51° 42.204 W 000° 36.789
30U E 664928 N 5730747
Pub Sign at The Red Lion
Waymark Code: WMARPW
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/19/2011
Views: 5
The pub sign appears to be painted on 3 panels
Red Lion is the name of over six hundred pubs. It thus can stand for an archetypal British pub. The lion is one of the most common charges in coats of arms, second only to the cross, and thus the Red Lion as a pub sign probably has multiple origins: in the arms or crest of a local landowner, now perhaps forgotten; as a personal badge of John of Gaunt, founder of the House of Lancaster; or in the royal arms of Scotland, conjoined to the arms of England after the Stuart succession in 1603
Name of Artist: Not listed
Date of current sign: Not listed
Date of first pub on site: Not listed
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