Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel was one of pre-war Plymouth’s major landmarks along with the neighbouring Theatre Royal, both of the buildings having been designed by John Foulston and bearing vast columned frontages. It was completed in 1813 and was destroyed by German bombers in 1941.

An 1852 review of the Royal Hotel stated “The Royal Hotel, Theatre and Assembly Rooms is a magnificent pile of buildings, erected in 1813, from the design of Mr Foulston, at a cost of £60,000. The entrance to the Royal Hotel is beneath the noble portico of Lockyer Street; and to the Theatre and Assembly Rooms , beneath the large portico in George Place. The assembly room, card and tea rooms are attached to the hotel, and have communication with it; they are elegantly fitted up, and decorated in a chaste and tasteful manner”

A rare find amongst the beer bottles recovered from Plymouth dumps are those bearing the simple embossing “Royal Hotel / Plymouth”

Beer bottle from Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel (on left)

1893 advert for Royal Hotel

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