THREE CUPS

27 October, 2011 THREE CUPS

Tetbury Families

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This popular coaching inn was to be found on the west side of Church Street, the third house to the south of the corner with Long Street. It was opened by 1654. The building was substantial with three gables. In 1722 Boman Holliday bequeathed the inn to his widow, Elizabeth. The tenant was John Paglar.

It was a prominent coaching inn serving routes to Bristol and Oxford which departed at 12 noon and 3pm daily. Court leet dinners were held here. In 1817 John Shipway & John Hayward held it for a peppercorn rent.

It was closed in the 1850's and purchased by Wm. Sealey who converted it into an ironmongers & blacksmiths with the forge to the rear. Then it was sold to Witchells. When the building was demolished in 1973 as unsafe, the interior was found to be much as it had been 150yrs before.


	The map of c.1838 showing the inn marked as such, and below an aerial shot of the building. Maps reproduced with permission of Gloucestershire Archives.

1654	Evidence for the inn on Church Street
1722	Boman Holliday owned the property
1736	John Jagler [should this name be Pagler? - see Bomans’ will.
1762	Nathaniel Bainton
1791	Directory lists it as a ‘principal inn’ of the town; Jeremiah Bainton
1802	owners, Warn & W Beale of the 3 Cupps, occupier Mr Hawdy? - value of estate £5 5s [Poor Rates]
1820-1822	Richard Tipping
1822	Carriers are advertised as leaving the inn as follows: William Budds wagons on Mon, Weds, Fri going to London; Tues, Thurs, Sat to Bath; J Applegates caravan Weds 6am to Gloucester; Friday 8am to Trowbridge. Coaches to Bristol by Royal Mail depart daily at 12 and to Oxford 3pm daily.
1830	Edmund Peacey [died 1830]
1839	Henry Moore was tenant and George Playne Esq the owner. The gross estimated rental was £26 per annum [Poor Rates]
1840-1844	Henry Moore
1851-1852	John Lord
1852-56	during this period it became an ironmongers










	extracts from the London Gazette[above 1736; top right 1762 & right 1791]

	SOURCES: VCH Gloucestershire Vol 11 available online Census Trade Directories GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES D1822/1 Deeds of the Three Cups inn, Tetbury date: (1732)-1812 Messuage or common inn called the 'Three Cups' in Church Street.


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