Arts Theatre Workshop and Store
ARTS THEATRE WORKSHOP AND STORE, 36, NEWMARKET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1126148
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- Statutory Address:
- ARTS THEATRE WORKSHOP AND STORE, 36, NEWMARKET ROAD
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- 2007-03-11
- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1126148
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1972
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARTS THEATRE WORKSHOP AND STORE, 36, NEWMARKET ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ARTS THEATRE WORKSHOP AND STORE, 36, NEWMARKET ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45945 58775
Details
NEWMARKET ROAD 1. 942 (South Side) No 36 (Arts Theatre Workshop and Store) (Formerly listed as Former Festival Theatre)
TL 4558 NE 5/109A 26.4.50. II*
2. Former Theatre Royal. 1816. Built at Barnwell because of prohibition in the University town. The interior is a virtually complete example of a Georgian theatre with a three-tiered horsehoe auditorium with the galleries supported on cast iron columns. There is no sign of the original decoration to the fronts of the galleries, but a painting of the Royal Arms remains above the proscenium. The theatre was closed in the C19 and used as a Nonconformist chapel, but it was reopened and again closed in the years between the two wars. Altered c1926 for Terence Gray by Harold Ridge and Norman Marshall, with the removal of the proscenium arch and the introduction of a cyclorama and a revolving stage. This was one of the earliest uses of this type of modern stage technology pioneered by Gordon Craig in the 1920s (RCHM 277).
Listing NGR: TL4594558775
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47635
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)
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