| The Cross Keys, Chelsea | |
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  The Cross Keys  The Cross Keys | |
| General information | |
| Location | 1 Lawrence Street, Chelsea, London, England |
| Coordinates | 51°29′01″N0°10′15″W / 51.483746°N 0.170951°W /51.483746; -0.170951 |
| Construction started | 1708 |
The Cross Keys is apublic house at 1 Lawrence Street, Chelsea, London SW3 5NB.
Built in 1708, it is the oldest pub in Chelsea. Regular visitors have included the artists Turner, Whistler and Sargent, writersAgatha Christie andDylan Thomas, and musiciansBob Marley andthe Rolling Stones.[1]
In 2012, the property developer Andrew Bourne, the owner of the Cross Keys, closed its doors and boarded up the windows, having claimed that the pub loses money, and applied for planning permission to turn it into a mansion with a swimming pool in the basement. If he had been successful, the property could have been worth more than £10 million.[1] In 2013, following a successful campaign by local people, it was sold on behalf of a private owner to Parsons Green Land for £3.9m,[2] and later reopened as a pub.
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