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© Ms Arabella Anderson
IoE Number:
427107
Location:
THE QUEEN'S THEATRE, WARDOUR STREET W1
WESTMINSTER, CITY OF WESTMINSTER, GREATER LONDON
Photographer:
Ms Arabella Anderson
Date Photographed:
19 January 2005
Date listed:
28 June 1972
Date of last amendment:
28 June 1972
Grade
II
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CITY OF WESTMINSTER SHAFTESBURY AVENUE Wl
TQ 2980 NE The Queen's Theatre
71/29
28-6-72
GV II
Theatre. 1907 by W. G. R. Sprague, the facade and front of house rebuilt 1958-59
after partial destruction by wartime bombing, by Westwood Sons and Partners in
collaboration with H. Casson. Steel and glass rebuild with brick and stone sides
and rear to surviving auditorium and stage parts. Rectilinear curtain wall curving
round corner on 4 storeys with canopy over ground floor. Sprague's front of house
block was designed as a pair to the Globe in a symmetrical composition; his
auditorium survives in a modified form with 2 tiers of cantilevered balconies and
domed ceiling, with much of the original Italian Renaissance style plasterwork
intact forward of the balcony fronts; some surviving wooden machinery below stage.
Survey of London; vol XXXI
The Theatres of London; Mander and Mitchenson