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Date of photo: 2019	Picture source: Michael Schouten
The Hanbury Arms was situated at 83 St Georges Road. This grade-II listed building was converted from a private house to a pub in 1865. The pub incorporates a mausoleum built in 1892 by Sir Albert Sassoon who was originally called Abdullah. He was a descendant of Sheikh Sason ben Saleh, who was head of the Jewish community in Baghdad in the late eighteenth century.The Sassoons’ remains were moved to London in 1933 when Albert Sassoon’s grandson sold the property. The mausoleum was used as an air-raid shelter during the war and then bought by the Hanbury Arms in 1953. It closed in 2012.
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Listed building details:
No.83 The Hanbury Arms Public House ST GEORGE'S ROAD. Mausoleum for Sir Albert Sassoon, now public house. 1892. Stucco. Tent roof of copper. Square in plan with wing to south. EXTERIOR: single storey over basement. In imitation of Nash's Mughal-inspired design of the Royal Pavilion (qv). Elevation to Saint George's Road is blank, except for a pilaster with shallow trilobed-arched recess at party wall and at corner. Cable cornice and lotus parapet continuous. On Paston Place elevation, piers with a pair of thick pilasters with trilobed-arched recesses. Flat-arched entrance to right set in aedicule formed by projecting section of wall and topped by a trilobed-arch, variously moulded; machicolated parapet above entrance. To the right of the entrance a lower range containing a second entrance with cornice and parapet to match main elevations. Roof circular in plan, supported on a low panelled drum; metal sheets with rib rolls terminates in acanthus-leaf and urn finial similar to those found on the Pavilion. The listing includes the 3-storey, 3-window range terraced house of irregular plan to the east, which is now the Hanbury Arms. HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir Albert lived at No.1 Eastern Terrace (qv), and was buried here in 1896; his son, Sir Edward, was interred in 1912. Their remains were removed in 1933 by Sir Philip, who sold the structure. It served as an air raid shelter during the war, and became part of the adjacent public house in 1953.
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Date of photo: 2019	Picture source: Michael Schouten
	Picture source: Felicity Snowden