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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 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of brick, and the inhabitants amply supplied with water. A theatre, a neat and commodious building, is opened …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1662. 3 Bladon stone was used in Oxford, at the Sheldonian Theatre in 1666, at New College, Queen's, and All Souls in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1787 the orangery in the kitchen court was turned into a theatre, with seats for over 200 people; plays were produced … two years, before invited audiences, 87 but it remained a theatre until converted shortly after 1840 into offices for … great hall and displayed separately in a room east of the theatre. 89 The Titian room was burnt down in 1861 and its …
Old and New London
… subject." It may be added here that at Tottenham Street Theatre (now the Prince of Wales's), about the year 1830, was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… the Schools Quadrangle stand to the S. of the Sheldonian Theatre and the Old Clarendon Building. The walls are of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the water-works, and to improve the town generally. The theatre is regularly open during the season; a town-hall was …