Terracotta gryphon, Longford Road, Coventry
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Terracotta gryphon, Longford Road, Coventry
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 11 Jul 2022
This Delft ware gryphon is set into the wall of the Longford Primary Care Centre, a doctors' surgery built in a very plain modern style on a main road on the northern outskirts of Coventry. It is clearly a survivor of the Griffin or Old Griffin public house which once stood on or near this site; a photo on the Coventry's Pub History site shows the gryphon in situ on the front of the pub https://pubhistory.historiccoventry.co.uk/main/pub.php?pg=griffin_longford . A gryphon is a mythical beast that is part-eagle, part-lion.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.449152
Longitude
-1.485854