The Lamb and Flag (Free House), Lamb and Flag Passage (off St Giles), Oxford.

Monday to Saturday 11am to 11pm
Sunday 12 noon to 10.30pm

Pontus Lurcock writes:
Pleasant, comfortable, and often packed in term-time, the Lamb and
Flag comprises four rooms, a large fireplace, and a small under-stairs
nook big enough for a lonely person to occupy with their pint. The
back room---flag-floored, large, and next to the toilets---used to
have a vaguely urinal feel to it, but they seem to have fixed that
now. (The pub's sturdy stone construction and the chunks of St John's
surrounding it also have the benefit of largely blocking mobile phone
reception.)

They don't take cards; instead they have one of those indoor cash
machines which probably charges an outrageous commission.

Beers are good: there's Skinner's Betty Stoggs, Shepherd Neame
Spitfire, Theakston's Old Peculier, and Lamb and Flag Gold (which I
assume is unique to them), plus a guest or two. They run an annual
beer festival, but I forget when.
(2005-04)

Editorial notes:
Skinner's Betty Stog's Ale GBP 2.15 (24.iii.2001)

This used to be a dark pub with stony walls and wainscoting that did food,
run by Courage. Before that it was famous for have underage schoolgirls in
here (or so says Peter Harding), but that's changed now.  It's all changed
now, ever since St John's failed to get it converted into student
accommodation and have taken over the running of it. The pub sign is the 
symbol of John the Baptist. St John's in Oxford is John the Baptist, and St
John's in Cambridge is John the Divine.

The ceiling has been lowered, so if you're anything much over six foot it'll
be a bit difficult to get served, and the stony walls have been stookied and
covered in white paint. This doesn't actually make the pub any lighter.

Most of the paraphernalia gone, save for the scythe.  I don't miss the fag or
quiz machines, or the jukebox, but you might. (8.ii.1999)

The food has been restored, and there was folk music in here when I
went past the other night. Otherwise, it is much the same. Full of people
from the Science Area in the early evenings some days.  Student accommodation
above. (24.iii.2001)

Appears in Kate Pugh's Vegan Oxford.

12.iv.2001 / 10.ii.1999