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A New History of London
… barbers, as being the original company. This hall with the theatre were the designs of the famous Inigo Jones; and were … a portrait of king Charles II. and other paintings. The theatre contains four degrees of cedar seats, one above … and five other skeletons of human bodies. But as this theatre was calculated for the use of the surgeons, who have …
A New History of London
… all. The entrance is through a grand octangular porch, or theatre, crowned with a dome which finishes in a cone; very … of the doctors, adorned with pictures and sculpture; a theatre for anatomical dissections; a preparing room, where … in building St. Peter's, though he had the quarries of Tivoli at hand, where he could have blocks large enough for …
A New History of London
… their separation from the Barbers 13. This hall with the theatre belonging to it are in an elegant taste: the front of … supports a plain attic course, crowned with vases. The theatre for dissections and anatomical lectures is an …
A New History of London
… for licencing plays and playhouses 2, there was a good theatre here. Victualling office. At the south end of the …
A New History of London
… and on the other side a playhouse, called the Little Theatre; where Mr. Foot has entertained the town with his … to Mr. Lacy, joint patentee with Mr. Garrick in Drurylane theatre, it must be observed, that some years since, that … east corner is the principal entrance to Convent Garden Theatre, all the elegance of which is within; it being …
A New History of London
… two or three fields: together with Sadlers-wells, a small theatre for the summer evening exhibition of tumbling, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… rooms, built by the corporation in 1820; a commodious theatre, erected in 1806; and a theatre of arts, exhibiting views of various cities, with …
Survey of London
… 7), and until the building of Smirke's Covent Garden Theatre in 1809 was essentially the usual street of houses, … 1732 there had been a small pit-entrance to Covent Garden Theatre on the west side. A larger entrance was made a few … century columned porches had been built, but the theatre still had no faade of its own to Bow Street. The …
Survey of London
… St. Paul and is not described in this volume: the Strand Theatre is also excluded. Brydges Street filled up with its … imperfect. He was living in a house where the Duchess Theatre now stands. His complaint, made against Edward … harmed by the taverns for which it became noted, and the Theatre Royal which had an entrance from the street from …