Pub giant Wetherspoon has applied for planning permission to install a new illuminated hanging sign at its new Kenilworth pub.

The sign would be installed to the front of the Dictum of Kenilworth at The Square.

Designs show the sign would show Kenilworth Castle, a scroll, a sword and a crown.

The Dictum of Kenilworth opened at The Square in July this year after years of planning applications and works at the former Poundland unit.

Pub giant Wetherspoon ultimately invested £3.2 million in the new boozer.

The name initially drew a lot of negative attention from locals.

Designs for the proposed new sign (image via planning application)

What was the Dictum of Kenilworth?

Between June and December 1266 Kenilworth Castle was besieged by the royal forces under the control of Prince Edward (later Edward I) to wrestle it from the control of those rebelling against the English King, Henry III.

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Civil war had persisted in England throughout the 1260's after the rebel Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, had raised an army against the king.

De Montfort was actually killed at the Battle of Evesham before the siege, but the rebellion raged on.

The dictum was delivered to the castle in October 1266, allowing the rebels to buy back the land that had been stripped from them, effectively pardoning them.

But they rejected it until finally giving out in the December when starvation and disease forced them to submit.

As per the dictum, they were allowed to leave with their horses and weaponry, and the castle was taken over by the royal forces.

Read more about the siege of Kenilworth here.