 Construction of a new building in pale terracotta stone with a corner cupola was started in 1899 by the architects Frederick James <unk> and Sydney Herbert Meyers . The brewers proclaimed the new building to be " the widest @-@ known hostelry in the world " , and work was completed in 1903 . A panel on a second floor balcony still bears this opening date . The parish of Clerkenwell became the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury in 1900 and when the City and South London Railway opened a new tube station in the area in 1901 it was named Angel . 
