Pub be the oldest surviving establishment in the United Kingdom, although in several cases original buildings have been demolished and replaced on the same site. Others are ancient buildings that were used for purposes other than as a pub previously in their history. Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, Hertfordshire, holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest pub in England, as it is an 11th-century structure on an 8th-century site. Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham is claimed to be the "oldest inn in England". It has a claimed date of 1189, based on the fact it is
St George in the Meadows, Nottingham for the Bishop of Southwell. The nave was designed by Richard Charles Sutton. The chancel was consecrated by the Bishop of Derby on 16 April 1898. It was designed by George Frederick Bodley and erected at a cost of £2,000. The Lady Chapel was intended to be built to the designs of Bodley, but Cecil Greenwood Hare designed a larger one which was built between 1914 and 1915. The church is located in the Meadows area of Nottingham. The parish merged with that of St. John the Baptist's Church, Leenside, Nottingham when that church was demolished after damage during the