The Apollo Theatre
8, ARCHER STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236173
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Apollo Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- 8, ARCHER STREET W1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236173
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Apollo Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, ARCHER STREET W1
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE APOLLO THEATRE, RUPERT STREET W1
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE APOLLO THEATRE, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE W1
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:
- 8, ARCHER STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- THE APOLLO THEATRE, RUPERT STREET W1
- Statutory Address:
- THE APOLLO THEATRE, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE W1
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 29622 80839
Details
CITY OF WESTMINSTER SHAFTESBURY AVENUE W1 TQ 2980 NE The Apollo Theatre 71/54 (including No 8 Archer 28-6-72 Street) GV II Theatre,1901 by Lewen Sharp with sculptured work by T. Simpson. Stone faced, plain brick to Rupert Street and Denmark Street. Shaftesbury Avenue front in a Free Renaissance style. 3 main storeys and a tall attic. 3 major bays wide, the outer two as pavilions with shallow canted fronts. Arcaded ground floor foyer and gallery-circle entrances, under glass canopy supported on elaborate ornamental iron brackets. 1st floor central loggia and pedimented flanking windows. Attic storey above main entablature, with enriched oeil de boeuf windows and crowning cornice. The pavilion attics are treated as short circular turrets with shallow domes, rather Art Nouveau in character and are enhanced by figure sculpture of heroic scale. Rich interior (slightly simplified by Schaufelberg in 1932) with foyer and ante-room to Royal Box; the auditorium with elaborate plasterwork in "Louis XIV" style. 3 cantilevered balconies flowing into the serpentine fronts of richly ornamental tiers of boxes flanking the proscenium - single box at stage level, pairs at dress and upper circle levels with modelled terms supporting the gallery "box" above; architraved proscenium with figure relief composition to tympanum over. Richly ornamental shallow domed ceiling on pendentives, etc. Lewen Sharp's only theatre, although he also altered the Camberwell Palace of Varieties in 1908.
Listing NGR: TQ2962280839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427104
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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