List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CAMDEN PALACE THEATRE
List entry Number: 1272425
Location
CAMDEN PALACE THEATRE, CAMDEN HIGH STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
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National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 28-Jun-1972
Date of most recent amendment: 11-Jan-1999
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 476805
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Details
CAMDEN
TQ2983SW CAMDEN HIGH STREET
798-1/83/150 (East side)
28/06/72 Camden Palace Theatre
(Formerly Listed as:
CAMDEN HIGH STREET
Camden Theatre)
GV II
Theatre, now a night-club. 1900-1. By WGR Sprague. Some late
C20 alterations. Decoration by Waring & Gillow. Stucco front
(ground floor painted) and 1 bay of return; red brick return.
Symmetrical facade in Baroque pastiche style.
EXTERIOR: 4 main storeys. 5 bays. Single storey entrance foyer
with pilasters supporting entablature and blocking course.
Round-arched openings (outer bays blocked) with pilasters
supporting architraved heads with keystones. Part-glazed
double doors. Centre bays of upper floors with tetrastyle in
antis Ionic screen rising through 2nd and 3rd floors to
support entablature with paired ogee pediments and parapet.
Behind this, a large copper dome. Flanking bays pilastered
with bowed angles. 1st floor round-arched windows, 2nd
square-headed, 3rd keyed oculi; this treatment repeated on 1st
return bay. Ground floor return with 2 doorways having Ionic
pilasters supporting entablatures with pediments; panelled
double wooden doors.
INTERIOR: symmetrically planned with elaborate foyer behind
main entrance with Ionic pilasters and moulded ceilings.
Overmantel with bronze bas relief plaque of Ellen Terry.
Cantilevered dress circle and balcony, now without seats and
with steps to ground floor. Lightly modelled plaster work by
Waring & Gillow in a mixture of baroque and rococo ornament.
Marble proscenium arch surmounted by segmental pediment with
recumbent figures and, within the tympanum, a mask surrounded
by rays. 4 bays on either side of proscenium with marble
Corinthian columns. Within 3 of the bays, 6 boxes in 2 tiers,
the upper boxes with canopies; lower boxes supported by
columns carried on caryatids. Balcony fronts with rococo
motifs. Ceiling supported on brackets within the cove above
entablature and with a large oval centrepiece having a shallow
dome.
HISTORICAL NOTE: formally opened by the actress Ellen Terry in
December 1900 as the Royal Camden Theatre to show a wide range
of productions from Shakespeare to pantomime and opera to
musical comedy. Later used as a cinema and a BBC recording
studio. Originally with sculptured statues on parapets.
(Curtains!!! Or a New Life for Old Theatres: London: 1982-).
Listing NGR: TQ2923883414
Selected Sources
- Book Reference - Title: Curtains or A New Life for Old Theatres - Date: 1982
National Grid Reference: TQ 29238 83414
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