The Champion, Wells Street: a Victorian pub with stained glass champions
A Grade II listed Fitzrovia corner pub whose 1989 painted glass portraits of Victorian champions sit within a mid-Victorian building.
London has been a centre of glass-making and decoration for centuries, from medieval church glass to Victorian pub interiors. The photographs here cover sandblasted counter screens and a carved lion panel, fused glass screens with glass jewels, and a window of arched leaded quarries in pastel colours.

A Grade II listed Fitzrovia corner pub whose 1989 painted glass portraits of Victorian champions sit within a mid-Victorian building.

How a small St James’s pub kept its gold-lettered etched doors and a rare scheme of Victorian brilliant cut and etched mirrors.