George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn, Glastonbury

The George Hotel and Pilgrims ' Inn was built as a guest house in 1470 in the English Glastonbury. It initially served as accommodation for guests at the nearby Glastonbury Abbey. The owner was John Selwood - the abbot of the monastery. To date, the building is still used as a hotel and restaurant.

Of particular importance to art history is the facade to High Street. It is, though still late Gothic style of the basic facility-wise, but worked with hints of the emerging Renaissance. Testimony which are on the one hand the strong rectangular structure of the façade elements and, second, the pronounced horizontal emphasis, especially the cornices. The middle of the three fields of Arms above the entrance shows the coat of arms of King Edward IV

The hotel has 15 rooms, 8 of which still lie in the historical part of the building.

1933 found the restaurant entrance into the main work of the Welsh writer John Cowper Powys Glastonbury Romance. Since 1950 it is under the highest level ( Grade I ) of the English heritage protection.

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