Theatre Royal
THEATRE ROYAL, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1142285
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Theatre Royal
- Statutory Address:
- THEATRE ROYAL, WESTGATE STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1142285
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Theatre Royal
- Statutory Address 1:
- THEATRE ROYAL, WESTGATE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THEATRE ROYAL, WESTGATE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bury St. Edmunds
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85618 63739
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE WESTGATE STREET 639-1/11/687 (South side) 07/08/52 Theatre Royal
GV I
Theatre. 1819; later used as a warehouse, but restored and re-opened as a theatre in 1965. By William Wilkins. In white brick and stucco with slate roof. EXTERIOR: the auditorium has a gabled end in white brick, with a 3-light small-paned sash window set in a semicircular arched recess. This rises above a stuccoed flat-roofed entrance foyer in 2 tiers, with a triglyph frieze and cornice to the lower part of the front, which is divided into 3 bays by plain pilasters, doubled at the corners. The 2 outer bays have small-paned semicircular arched windows and the central bay has double entrance doors with a semicircular fanlight. The windows and fanlight all have radiating glazing-bars. Lower side wings flank the foyer, each with 2 semicircular arched openings, one with a small-paned window, the other with a doorway. INTERIOR: the circular auditorium has 2 tiers of galleries above, supported on slender reeded cast-iron columns with acanthus-leaf capitals. The original Etruscan style decoration to the fronts of the galleries has been restored. The stage has a door at each side and figured marble pilasters. The foyer has a pair of matching fireplaces on the rear walls: the slightly raised cast-iron grates have reeded surrounds and moulded architraves with dentil cornices. Domed ceiling. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 151; Statham M: The Book of Bury St Edmunds: Buckingham: 1988-: 109-110).
Listing NGR: TL8563563748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467717
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Statham, M, The Book of Bury St Edmunds, (1988), 109-110
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 151
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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