St Martins Theatre
ST MARTINS THEATRE, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379186
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- St Martins Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARTINS THEATRE, WEST STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379186
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- St Martins Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARTINS THEATRE, WEST STREET
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:
- ST MARTINS THEATRE, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30024 80990
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3080NW WEST STREET
798-1/108/1714 (North East side)
16/03/73 St Martins Theatre
GV II
Theatre. 1916. By WGR Sprague as a companion to the
Ambassadors (1913), West Street (qv), but for different
owners. Built by Lenn Thornton and Co. Ashlar facade with
banded rustication to ground floor.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. 5 bays with 10-window left return. Ground
floor with round arch openings and wide central entrance
surmounted by a plain C20 canopy. Giant engaged Ionic columns
in antis with rusticated end pilasters rise through the 1st,
2nd and 3rd floors, supporting an entablature, with triglyphs
in the frieze, and parapet. First floor windows have Tuscan
pilasters supporting pediments, above shouldered architraves
and keyblocks.
INTERIOR: 2-tier auditorium, in Classical style, of polished
hardwood. Turned balusters to balcony fronts. Side walls of
auditorium have large Doric engaged columns and pilasters on
pedestals supporting bold entablature which continues over the
rectangular proscenium arch. Glazed domed ceiling. Stage
machinery: nearly complete example of Edwardian (1916) wooden
stage, marred only by alterations made to accommodate dimmer
room in the sub-stage space. Represents one of the final
stages in the development of timber stage machinery in England
and an exceptional survival.
HISTORICAL NOTE: "Architectural Review" of that time noted a
change in style of decoration from the lavish showy palace to
a traditional English domestic interior implying a more select
audience.
Listing NGR: TQ3002380984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478553
- 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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