Royal Court Theatre
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: Royal Court Theatre
List entry Number: 1226628
Location
Sloane Square, Chelsea, London, SW1W 8AS
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Greater London Authority
District: Kensington and Chelsea
District Type: London Borough
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 28-Jun-1972
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 423994
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This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 01/06/2018
TQ 2878 NW
50/2
SLOANE SQUARE SW1
Royal Court Theatre
28.6.72
GV
II
Theatre. 1888, Walter Emden to Bertie Crewe. Interior reconstructed 1952, and altered again in 1956 and 1980. Red brick. Stone dressings. Ground floor painted. Four storeys. Three main bays. Central pediment. Applied Corinthian columns to upper floor. Outer bays with cambered pediments richly carved. Round headed windows to first and fourth floors. Balustraded parapet.
Historical note: the theatre was host to the first suffragette-themed play, ‘Votes for Women!’, which opened on 9 April 1907, and was attended by the Pankhursts. Inspired by the emerging militant campaign for women’s suffrage by the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the playwright, Elizabeth Robins, in the process of her research for the play became devoted to the cause. She gave a quarter of her royalties to the two main suffrage groups, though was not herself militant. The leading actor, Edith Wynne-Matthison, likewise came to support the campaign, and went on with Robins to found the Actresses' Franchise League in 1908.
This list entry was amended in 2018 as part of the centenary commemorations of the 1918 Representation of the People Act.
Listing NGR: TQ2808678679
Selected Sources
Websites
Ellis, Smanatha, ‘Votes for Women!, Royal Court, April 1907’, The Guardian, 19/03/2003, accessed 11/05/2018 from https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/mar/19/theatre.artsfeatures1
Heskins, Theresa, ‘International Women’s Day 2018: the woman who wrote the first suffragette play – and almost shot George Bernard Shaw’, in inews, 08/03/2018, , accessed 11/05/2018 from https://inews.co.uk/culture/international-womens-day-2018-woman-wrote-first-suffragette-play-almost-shot-george-bernard-shaw/
John, Angela V, ‘Robins, Elizabeth (1862-1952), in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 03/01/2008, accessed 11/05/2018 from http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-37903?rskey=fs9H7g&result=2
National Grid Reference: TQ 28086 78679
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