Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE WESTGATE STREET
639-1/11/687 (South side)
07/08/52 Theatre Royal

GV I

Theatre. 1819; later used as a warehouse, but restored and
re-opened as a theatre in 1965. By William Wilkins. In white
brick and stucco with slate roof.
EXTERIOR: the auditorium has a gabled end in white brick, with
a 3-light small-paned sash window set in a semicircular arched
recess. This rises above a stuccoed flat-roofed entrance foyer
in 2 tiers, with a triglyph frieze and cornice to the lower
part of the front, which is divided into 3 bays by plain
pilasters, doubled at the corners. The 2 outer bays have
small-paned semicircular arched windows and the central bay
has double entrance doors with a semicircular fanlight. The
windows and fanlight all have radiating glazing-bars. Lower
side wings flank the foyer, each with 2 semicircular arched
openings, one with a small-paned window, the other with a
doorway.
INTERIOR: the circular auditorium has 2 tiers of galleries
above, supported on slender reeded cast-iron columns with
acanthus-leaf capitals. The original Etruscan style decoration
to the fronts of the galleries has been restored. The stage
has a door at each side and figured marble pilasters. The
foyer has a pair of matching fireplaces on the rear walls: the
slightly raised cast-iron grates have reeded surrounds and
moulded architraves with dentil cornices. Domed ceiling.
(BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 151;
Statham M: The Book of Bury St Edmunds: Buckingham: 1988-:
109-110).

Listing NGR: TL8563563748

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Theatre Royal at Wikipedia
• Theatre Royal official website
• Wikidata Q7777423

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