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Survey of London
… left and right, to a doorway in the return face of each pavilion. Before the west front was a semi-circular court or … a plinth for the Doric pilastered first storey, where each pavilion had three rectangular windows placed between single … in the second storey where the three windows of each pavilion had arched-heads linked by bard-imposts, and the …
A Dictionary of London
… and were abolished until 1735. The famous Blackfriars theatre was erected on part of the site about 1596, in spite …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a subscription library, a scientific institution, and a theatre, which was erected in 1818. The manufacture of …
Old and New London
… came to London and joined the company at the Blackfriars Theatre. Only three years later we find the new arrival and … of sixteen sharers in the prosperous though persecuted theatre. It is true that Mr. Halliwell has lately discovered … The Blackfriars company, in 1593, began to build a summer theatre, the Globe, in Southwark; and Mr. Collier, …
A Dictionary of London
… the Thames at this site in former times. Blackfriars Theatre The site on which this theatre was erected had been for thirty-five years the office … and the premises converted by him into the Blackfriars Theatre (H. MSS. Com. 7th Rep. 537). Ordered to be closed …
Survey of London
… are the conversation-rooms, one of which opens into the theatre where the public lectures are delivered. It may be said . . . that this theatre is one of the most elegant rooms in the metropolis. … projecting cantalivers or trusses. The diameter of the theatre is thirty-six feet; and the parterre, or ground part, …
Old and New London
… Blackfriars Road The Surrey Theatre and Surrey Chapel CHAPTER XXVIII. BLACKFRIARS ROAD.THE SURREY THEATRE, SURREY CHAPEL, &c. Formation of Blackfriars RoadThe Surrey Theatre, originally the "Royal Circus and Equestrian …
Old and New London
… was Secretary of State for War. It is constructed on the pavilion system, and comprises six parallel blocks, in which …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of brick, and the inhabitants amply supplied with water. A theatre, a neat and commodious building, is opened …