Description

CAMDEN

TQ3081SW HIGH HOLBORN
798-1/105/1429 Shaftesbury Theatre
01/03/74

GV II

See under: Shaftesbury Theatre SHAFTESBURY AVENUE.

CAMDEN

TQ3081SW SHAFTESBURY AVENUE
798-1/105/1429 (East side)
01/03/74 Shaftesbury Theatre

GV II

Includes: Shaftesbury Theatre HIGH HOLBORN.
Theatre. 1911. By Bertie Crewe. Terracotta, stone and brick in
elaborate Renaissance style. Rectangular plan on a corner
site, the main entrance being at the angle of Shaftesbury
Avenue and High Holborn.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 bays to each return, the entrance bay
being curved. Ground floor rusticated with continuous plain
canopy over. 1st floor rusticated, much of the fenestration
covered by hoarding. 2nd floor with Diocletian windows & oculi
in alternate bays, the entrance having rectangular windows
with enriched architraves, all having large consoles under a
cornice and elaborate parapet. Above the entrance front, a
cupola.
INTERIOR: foyer and booking hall with delicate plaster
decoration. Auditorium of considerable richness with 2
cantilevered balconies, the fronts varied in form and
decoration. Rectangular ceiling with enriched cove and cornice
and circular flat-domed centre. Segmental proscenium arch with
figure reliefs in spandrels over. Bow-fronted boxes paired in
two tiers and framed by giant Ionic columns rising from heavy
console brackets and carrying an entablature with figures, the
whole composition crowned by a semicircular arch and a heavily
moulded eaves cornice. In the arch tympanum a sculptural group
is set over each upper box. Balustraded balcony terraces at
upper box level run laterally along the walls towards the
boxes and balustraded front to filled orchestra pit.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the theatre was designed as a melodrama
house.
(Curtains!!! or, A New Life for Old Theatres: London: -1982:
157-58).

Listing NGR: TQ3013781354

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Shaftesbury Theatre at Wikipedia
• Shaftesbury Theatre official website
• Wikidata Q7461127

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