BAYNARD CASTLE PUB

Baynard Castle relates to an actual castle dating back to the time of William the Conqueror and was built by a follower by the name of Baynard and predated the setting of Blackfriars Monastery. It had a chequered history full of Royal and noble incident for which the internet will provide much in detail. In 1275 the site was presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury by Robert Fitzwalter for the foundation of the London House of Dominican Friars and a new Baynard Castle was built on the river's edge in an adjacent location slightly south east of the monastery. The castle had been destroyed and rebuilt many times but finally succumbed in the Great Fire of 1666 by which time it had gone from being a castle to a palace and finally a mansion but always known as Baynard Castle.....The pub is no longer known as Baynard Castle.