Bell Hotel, High Street, Cheltenham

Numbered 107 High Street in 1903. The Bell Hotel closed c.1907 and was demolished. It stood on the north side of the High Street by the present-day C&A stores and Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society (corner of Winchcombe Street).

The Bell Commercial Hotel to the right. Looking towards ‘Boots Corner’

The Bell was one of Cheltenham’s leading hotels with a substantial annual rateable value of £148.15s.0d. in 1891 and 1903. This prestigious hotel was owned by Charles Newbury and Thomas Adams. Beer, wines and spirits were supplied by the Cheltenham Original Brewery.

A report on the licensing committee meeting in the 16th February 1907 edition of the Gloucester Chronicle noted that the Bell Hotel had been unoccupied all year. Superintendant Hawkins objected to the renewal of the licence.

Hi,

Just to say on the Bell Hotel, High Street, Cheltenham – according to the article “A 1786 Map of Cheltenham” by James Hodsdon in the Cheltenham Local History Society journal no. 15 from 1999, this was another of Corpus Christi College, Oxford’s Cheltenham holdings in that year, when it was referred to as the Bell Inn – another of the town’s coaching inns.

They also owned the Pates Alms Houses, which at that time (and since the 1570s) took up a large part of the eastern side of what later became Winchcomb Street, boasting their own chapel, orchard and gardens – a much more substantial alms house environment than when they were moved to the north side of Albion Street circa. 1811. I believe, when the Enclosure Act made it possible for development to take place, someone realised how much the property would likely become worth!

Cheers,

Alan Jones

Landlords at the Bell Hotel include:

1830 George Williams (Bell Inn)

1844 Richard Glover

1856,1883 Benjamin Alcock

1891 H.T. Alcock & Thomas Page

1900 William Stanbridge (Manager). William had previously been landlord of the Red Lion in Little Compton (Warwickshire) from 1851 to 1871

1902,1903 William Herwig

Share this Page: