Corinium Hotel & Restaurant

Welcome to the Corinium Hotel in Cirencester, the Capital of the Cotswolds.

With a 16th century heart, 15 individual character bedrooms, a town location, garden and car parking. The Corinium Hotel courtyard bar and restaurant awaits…

The Roman town of Corinium was the second largest Roman settlement in England 2000 years ago.

The Roman town wall, 50 metres from the Hotel, actually overlaid the Whiteway, a prehistoric salt trading route, showing Cirencester as a favoured location for many years.

The Hotel was built as an Elizabethan wool merchant's house, around 1595, not long after the nearby Abbey, once the richest Augustinian house in the country, was dissolved on the orders of King Henry VIII. A font, gargoyles and other fragments remain within the Hotel's ½ acre site.

It is likely the Tudor oak beams, now exposed in the top floor rooms, are ships' timbers, from nearby Gloucester docks, salvaged less than twenty years after the English defeated the Spanish Armada.

As an important house close to the centre of this thriving market town, the Hotel was modernised in Georgian times when the street façade was refaced in dressed Cotswold stone and sash windows and shutters were added. Later the Victorians extended the property and walled the gardens.

During the Second World War Wing Commander Knowler owned the property. Pilots and aircrew from RAF Kemble were the first guests, billeted here throughout the Battle of Britain.

The stables became a garage, which has now become the Courtyard bar and the coachhouse made way for the restaurant.

Address:	12 Gloucester Street Cirencester Gloucestershire GL7 2DG England
Telephone:	01285 659711
Fax:	01285 885807
E-mail:	info@coriniumhotel.co.uk
Website:	http://www.coriniumhotel.co.uk

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