{"id":10330,"date":"2025-10-13T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10330"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:36:00","slug":"chester-tea-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10330","title":{"rendered":"Chester Tea rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week we visited the ancient city of Chester; on that day we used two tea rooms that were located in very old buildings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first was the Caf\u00e9 1092 in the Cathedral where I had tea and a cake. This location is the Monk’s Refectory (Dining Room) built in the 13th Century:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chester Cathedral: Caf\u00e9 1092 in the Monk’s Refectory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s not every day you can enjoy a cuppa in a 700-800 year old building! The stained glass window is the ‘Creation Window’ depicting the six days of creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second place we visited was a bit more recent – 14th Century. This was Katies Tea rooms where we enjoyed a light lunch in what was the store room of a 14th Century merchant’s house. Here are 2 views from where I was sitting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Katies Tea rooms: A thick wooden beam holding the upper floors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Katies Tea rooms: A stone arch holding the upper floors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lunch in a 600-700 year old tea room – not bad! (the lunch was good too…) As it was a ‘grade 2’ listed building there were limitations on how they could use the building: that meant to use the ‘facilities’ you had to go up 2 flights of stairs and through several rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week we visited the ancient city of Chester; on that day we used two tea rooms that were located in very old buildings: The first was the Caf\u00e9 1092 in the Cathedral where I had tea and a cake. This location is the Monk’s Refectory (Dining Room) built in the 13th Century: It’s not … Continue reading “Chester Tea rooms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,102,152,3,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buildings","category-historic-houses-and-gardens","category-historic-places","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10348,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330\/revisions\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}