Lost pub · Castle Street
The Black Swan Inn
- Built
- Trading from about 1754
- Gone
- Demolished April 1868
- There now
- Not established
- Address
- 57 Castle Street
- Where exactly
- On Castle Street. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the street, not the building.
An ancient and well-accustomed inn, by its own advertiser's description when it was put up to let in November 1819, and trading at 57 Castle Street from about 1754. It was for sale again in September 1828, and George Smith is named as innkeeper the following month. It turns up in a further Carlisle Journal sale notice in December 1848, and is marked on Asquith's 1853 map of the city.
The 1861 census gives George Scott, 72 and born at Sebergham, as publican, and Jane Stoddart signed the innkeepers' memorial of February 1867 for the Black Swan. The building was demolished the following year, in April 1868, and St Mary's Church was built on the site. In 1911 a Carlisle Journal writer noted that its sign was in Tullie House. In February 1999 the Cumberland News ran an illustrated retrospective on what had stood there, under the headline 'Cathedral that hid behind a pub.'
Sources 4
- carlisle-encyclopaedia.co.uk
- CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)
- Carlisle Journal, 22 February 1867, p. 6: the Public Houses Closing Act and the innkeepers' memorial (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Journal, 5 December 1911, p. 4: 'Old inns in Carlisle' (via British Newspaper Archive)
Also lost on Castle Street
30 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map