Prince of Wales Theatre

Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386535
Date first listed:: 15-Apr-1999
List Entry Name:: Prince of Wales Theatre
Statutory Address:: Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386535
Date first listed:: 15-Apr-1999
List Entry Name:: Prince of Wales Theatre
Statutory Address 1:: Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street

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 29741 80675

Details

TQ 2980 NE 1900/71/10219

COVENTRY STREET Prince of Wales Theatre II Theatre, 1937 by Robert Cromie, on site of theatre of the same name, built 1884 demolished 1937. Altered 1950s and 1963. Steel frame, concrete, artificial stone cladding. Corner tower with entrance below. Reclad 1980s. First stage windows blocked 1950s when those to right inserted. Ventilation shaft above, surmounted by open drum formerly with flag staff. Formerly edged in neon.

Oxenden Street elevation in two sections. The first arranged vertically over five floors. Metal framed windows between tall slender pilaster-like strips. Beyond, arranged horizontally, a line of five portholes over a horizontal strip window.

Interior: auditorium of stalls and circle set well forward giving excellent sight lines throughout. Swept underside of circle with inset lighting. Square proscenium arch gilded, with gilded ventilation inlet above. Almost two dimensional swagged brocades in plaster flanking proscenium and over boxes to left and right. Gilded figure over left hand doorway. Blind windows illuminated from behind, and with gilded glazing bars. Slender linear applied decoration to walls and motifs to circle front. Original seating.

Some modifications to stage and orchestra from 1960s. Circle bar with swept ceiling. Sinuous coving protruding above bar, concealed lighting behind. Gilded ventilation grilles. Stalls bar including former dance floor. Ceiling largely concealed under inserted ceiling. Three octagonal piers with wide flat brims. Sweeping coving with scalloped inner edge, concealed bar lighting behind. Ridged and folded plaster ceiling over bar. Bar, about 46 feet long, of polished copper with steel trim, inset glass blocks lit from behind to front; former cocktail bar with curved recessed ceiling panel concealed lighting within. Former American bar (now lobby) with glazed ceiling panel, ribbed arch. Gilded niche with bowl below with marble basin.

Listing NGR: TQ2974180675

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Legacy System number:: 473926
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.