The Chapel Inn is the oldest licenced pub in the town. It was originally built on the old Roman Military Road that went from Colchester to St Albans via Bishops Stortford. Remains of the Roman road with its drainage aqueducts are still there in the beer cellar today. 

 

Coggeshall is one of the many sites claimed to be the burial place of Queen Boudica. 

 

Coggeshall is known for almost 300 listed buildings.

 

If a Coggeshallian implies he has been to Chapel, it may not be the ecclesiastic variety. The Chapel Inn was so named as it was built on the site of an early Chapel around 1256 and remained until 1787 when it was demolished.

 

The Chapel Inn became a legally licensed premises in 1554. Market Hill was named after the market that was established in 1256. 

 

King Henry III gave Coggeshall its market charter.

 

The predecessor of the Chapel Inn is first mentioned in 1376 as the home of the High Sheriff of Essex, John Sewell, who was a victim of Wat Tyler’s peasant revolt in 1381, when insurgents ransacked it and murdered Sewell by decapitating him and stealing what money there was on the premises.

 

The town clock was built to celebrate Queen Victoria’s jubilee in 1887, and the clock house was at one point a school for the poor children of the town.