Most Interesting Pub Yet: The Cittie of Yorke

Although we are not pub-goers, we have seen a few and even stayed over-night in one or two. The Cittie of Yorke, on High Holborn, caught our attention while we were walking to Gray's Inn, and then, in need of a respite, we dropped in somewhat later. What we found was the most interesting pub interior we have seen yet...an Elizabethan pub, or at least so imagined when it was most recently renovated a century ago. Much of the interior was preserved from previous pub and coffee house iterations, dating back to 1430.

From across High Holborn

Inauspicious surroundings, although it is directly adjacent to the (white)
entrance to Gray's Court  

Now in the long bar room, back of the cavernous pub, past two 

smaller rooms; note the humongous barrels above the bar

Ceiling treatment

The whole length opposite the bar containing these booths, said
to have been built with barristers and their conferences in mind

Informative history of the place; Grade II listing, certainly
among Britain's heritage pubs

Typical decor

The whole now owned by and an outlet for Samuel Smith brewery,
in the city of York