Pedro. on 14 Oct 2004  •  Link

Seems to have changed names a few times see...

http://www.historiclondonpubs.co.uk/bank.html

Clement on 30 Nov 2004  •  Link

This tudor tavern survived the great fire and still stands near Strand/Fleet street.
It is likely The Fountain of Sam's reference. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/leisur…
Not coincidentally it's also where the Samuel Pepys Club was formed in 1903.

Terry Foreman on 17 Apr 2014  •  Link

Fountain court is just west of The Savoy on the s. side of the Strand. Could that be where the tavern was?
http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/SeriesSearchPlates…

Terry Foreman on 18 Apr 2014  •  Link

There's a Fountain Court off Middle Temple Lane s. of the transition to Fleet Street from the Strand. Check it out.
http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/SeriesSearchPlates…

Bill on 24 Sep 2014  •  Link

Fountain Court, in the Strand, was so called from "the Fountain Tavern," at the corner...
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

Bill on 10 Oct 2014  •  Link

There is information about the Fountain Tavern in this in-depth entry:

Samuel Pepys and Fleet Street http://www.pepysdiary.com/indepth/2005/09/21/samu…

Seeker on 8 Jun 2016  •  Link

It is unlikely that the Fountain Tavern visited by Pepys was the one in the Strand. It was more likely the older one in the Temple. The one in the Strand was new at that time (if it yet existed). It was where the Whig grandees (Churchill, Russell et al) plotted the Glorious Revolution (1688/9) that dethroned Charles II's brother, James II, and installed William III (of Orange) and their sister, Mary II, in his place.