WILTON'S MUSIC HALL

WILTON'S MUSIC HALL, GRACE'S ALLEY E1

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1065173
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: WILTON'S MUSIC HALL
Statutory Address:: WILTON'S MUSIC HALL, GRACE'S ALLEY E1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1065173
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: WILTON'S MUSIC HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WILTON'S MUSIC HALL, GRACE'S ALLEY E1

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WILTON'S MUSIC HALL, GRACE'S ALLEY E1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 34241 80851

Details

GRACE'S ALLEY E1 1. 4431 (North Side) Wilton's Music Hall TQ 3480 22/753 7.4.71. II* GV 2. Mid C19 formerly the Albion Saloon. Music Hall from mid C19. Stock brick. 3 and 2 storeys, 9 windows, unbarred sashes with painted lintels. Entablature with cornice above ground floor. Pilasters. Door has carved flanking pilasters with bas relief of flowers and fruit. Interior with stage and surrounding balcony (used for sailors originally whilst civilians sat in the pit) remains. Formerly known as the Mahogany Bar as it was the first theatre to have wooden fittings. Balcony has gilded leaves and floral decoration, and is supported on barley sugar pillars. Proscenium arch has gilded ball moulding. Arcading to rear apsidal wall, opposite stage. Tiered balcony floor and banded ceiling. Has also been used as a chapel and as a seamans club. Grade II* for sociological interest and for interior.

Wilton's Music Hall forms part of a group with the listed buildings and the road surface of Wellclose Square.

Listing NGR: TQ3424180851

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Legacy System number:: 206024
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.