WYNDHAMS THEATRE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1292230
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sep-1960
- Statutory Address:
- WYNDHAMS THEATRE, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- WYNDHAMS THEATRE, 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)
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30000 80792
Details
TQ 2980 NE and 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARING CROSS ROAD, WC2
71/64 ; 72/67 (East side)
20.9.60
Wyndham's Theatre
G.V. II*
Theatre, 1899 by W.G.R. Sprague. Portland stone facing, concealed roof.
Free classical facade. 2 and 3 storeys with attics. 5 windows wide. The
centrepiece has triple group of foyer doorways surmounted by mezzanine
oculi in enriched frames. 1st floor balustraded loggia with Ionic
pilasters dividing the arcaded windows and, above entablature, a sculpted
pediment set against blind attic. The taller single bay wings with
archivolt arched openings running through ground and 1st floors, then 2
mezzanine windows at pediment level and finally 2 windows in the attic
storey. 1920s canopy of glass and iron to ground floor. Fine and very
little altered auditorium with very elegant "Louis XVI" plasterwork to
balconies of horseshoe dress and upper circles, steeply raked gallery,
ornate stage boxes and richly gilded architectural frame to proscenium
arch, etc.
Survey of London: Vol. XXXIV.
The Theatres of London; Mander and Mitchenson.
Listing NGR: TQ3000080792
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209091
- 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.
End of official listing
