The Garrick Theatre
THE GARRICK THEATRE, 2, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217927
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Garrick Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- THE GARRICK THEATRE, 2, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1217927
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Garrick Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GARRICK THEATRE, 2, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2
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:
- THE GARRICK THEATRE, 2, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30016 80673
Details
TQ 3080 NW and 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARING CROSS ROAD, WC2 72/108 (east side)
No 2 2O.9,fit The Garrick Theatre
GV II*
Theatre. 1889 by C J Phipps. Painted stucco front. Concealed roof. Eclectic classicism. 2 tall storeys and sheer attic. 5 bays wide. Ground floor rusticated and arcaded with foyer doorways. Corinthian colonnade to balustraded 1st floor loggia with arcaded windows behind. Enriched frieze to main entablature and balustraded attic with oculi fenestration. The front is continued to right by screen wall to body of theatre set on a Portland stone podium. The first part is of Bath stone with a stucco entabla- ture over the 3 pilastered central bays; the 2nd part also faced in Bath stone with arcaded 1st floor. Interior retains most of original features with foyer and staircase serving fine auditorium with dress circle, upper circle and gallery with good neo- Rococo plaster work to balcony front, boxes and central dome of ceiling etc.
Survey of London; Vol XXXIV The Theatres of London; Mander and Mitchenson.
Listing NGR: TQ3001180676
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209097
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mander, , Mitchenson, , The Theatres of London, (1975)
Survey of London in The Parish of St Anne Soho: Volumes 33 and 34 , Vol. 34, (1966)
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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