A notice posted on the door of The Coronet in Holloway Road in February – and shared online – appears to give warning of a lease forfeiture to The Toll Gate TPL Limited.
The building was formerly a Wetherspoons which closed in December 2023 but was bought by DN Property London for an undisclosed sum as part of a 30 pub package including The Toll Gate in Turnpike Lane.
Before that it was a cinema which opened in 1940 as The Savoy before being renamed The Coronet and then the ABC.
It was converted into a pub after showing its final film in 1983.
In April 2025, The Toll Gate TPL Limited – whose directors are listed as Ali Salami-Asl and Saeed Farsi – successfully applied to Islington Council to vary the licence to allow boxing, wrestling and MMA bouts at the venue.
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According to both The Campaign For Real Ale website and Instagram page Saving London Pubs, bailiffs took possession of the building last month.
The latter posted: “I hope this iconic building can be saved. This would make a great live music venue!”
One responded: “That’s so sad, I walked past this the first time the other week and gasped at how beautiful it was.”
Another said: “I remember it as a cinema!”
In another post on the Arsenal Women’s Fans Facebook page, one wrote of the Coronet’s closure: “Not a surprise at all but such a shame as it’s a great space with plenty of potential just needs the right owners to come in and sort it out.”
