Wimbledon Theatre
WIMBLEDON THEATRE, THE BROADWAY SW19
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286404
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wimbledon Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- WIMBLEDON THEATRE, THE BROADWAY SW19
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- 1999-09-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/00409/32
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286404
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wimbledon Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIMBLEDON THEATRE, THE BROADWAY SW19
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:
- WIMBLEDON THEATRE, THE BROADWAY SW19
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Merton (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 25165 70440
Details
LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON THE BROADWAY, SWl9 TQ 2570 (south side) 9/10 Wimbledon Theatre 28.6.72 - II
Theatre. 1910, by Cecil Massey and Roy Young (perhaps following a 1908 design by Frank H Jones). Red brick, slate mansard roof. Copper dome to octagonal corner tower. Irregular corner site with 4-stage tower having Tuscan colonnade to ground floor and triple square headed entrances. Brick rusticated quoins. 3-storey elevations to either side with shop to left side with canted bay windows above and crowning modillion cornice. Tower windows square headed to first and second stages with stone architraves and open segmental pediments; oval third floor windows, with open pediments over, fused to form cornice. Elaborate interiors with Baroque and Adamesque features; decorative plasterwork; wrought iron balustrades to galleries etc. Curtains !!! ed I Mackintosh and M Sell.
Listing NGR: TQ2516570440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 205005
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mackintosh, I, Sell, M, Curtains or New Life for Old Theatres, (1982)
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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