Located in Great Victoria Street, Belfast and is owned by the National Trust and managed by Bass Ireland, The Crown Bar is both ageless and priceless, a gem of Victoriana, and without doubt one of the great bars of the world. The Crown, Belfast, was perhaps the greatest of Victorian gin palaces which once flourished in the industrial cities of Britain. Today wonderfully preserved, the Crown is cherished and still well used by the people of Belfast.

The National Trust made the decision to purchase this exotic property in 1978 (Sir John Betjeman, the late Poet Laureate, played a crucial role in the Trust's decision). In 1981, the Trust carried out a sympathetic restoration, and it took a sum of approximately ?400,00 to restore the bar to its full Victorian splendour. It is now a unique visual gem, a veritable masterpiece in bar architecture, which has the distiction of being known to millions all over the world.