Pub of the Year 2024 (East Sheffield)

The Chantry Inn (400 Handsworth Road, S13 9BZ) has been voted as Sheffield and District CAMRA East Area Pub of the Year for 2024.
 
This historic pub which was built around 1250 is uniquely one of only four pubs in the UK set in consecrated grounds being within the boundaries of St Mary’s parish church in Handsworth.
 
It compromises of three different rooms each with some original and unique features including real fireplaces, beamed low ceilings and even the bell pushes used in previous days to order the ale. There are also claims of various tunnels and passageways from the cellar to the church. 
 
It has had a varied past originally being a chantry and safe house for nuns, then a washhouse and a school before being a pub for much of the later years from the early 1800’s.
 
Chantry Brewery acquired the pub in early 2019, undertook a tasteful restoration and now deliver real quality beers. There are always 5 cask ales on tap from Chantry brewery with a rotating special including Steelos, Kaldos, Full Moon alongside the regulars of New York pale, Iron and Steel bitter, Special Reserve and Diamond Stout. There are also changing keg beers available often from Tiny Rebel or Beavertown as well as real cider options and Chantry brewery’s own Helles lager. 
 
Congratulations to all involved with the Chantry Inn including the brewery and the pub manager Terry and his partner Alison. The area pub of the year award presentation is planned for the evening of Tuesday 11 June and all are welcome to join the celebration. 

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