Work has started on a major refurbishment of one of Abingdon's most popular pubs, the Brewery Tap in Ock Street.

Over the next four weeks owners Greene King are carrying out £25,000 worth of repairs, repainting, and installing new lights and signs. A plain window overlooking Ock Street will be replaced with an etched one to match another window. Two years ago vandals fired a ball-bearing from a catapult into the Victorian window from a passing car.

Landlord Matt Heritage said: "The vandalism and subsequent loss of the window was a big blow to the pub. It was an original Victorian window and a feature of the pub.

"We had to replace it with a plain glass window but now under the refurbishment that will be replaced with a new window with an etched motif to match the other window."

When the brewery's outside work is finished, builders, fitters and decorators will move inside to carry out a £25,000 interior refurbishment paid by the licencees.

The work is scheduled to be finished by September 17.

The Brewery Tap celebrated its 10th birthday last year.

The building used to be the office of the managing director of the former Morland brewery nearby.

Later it was used as a sales office for the company before Morland decided to convert the building into a pub to replace The Crown in Ock Street.