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TO 2980 NE
71/60

CITY OF WESTMINSTER WC2
CHARING CROSS ROAD (west side)
The London Hippodrome Theatre and No 43 (Crown public house) (including Nos 7 to 10 consec, Cranbourn Street)

9.1.70

GV.
II
Theatre block including shops, chambers and the Crown public house at No. 43. 1895 to 1900 by Frank Matcham. Red sandstone, leaded and slated roofs. Ornate, freely handled French Renaissance with theatrically Baroque skyline. Island block of five storeys. Five bays wide to Charing Cross Road, canted corner and eight-bay return to Cranbourn Street. Pub front and shops and canopied corner entrance to theatre on ground floor. Balustraded first floor with windows flanked by volute-like caryatids. Shallow canted bay windows through two floors above. Sill, string courses and cornices with balustraded parapet broken by two shaped pediments, that to Cranbourn Street central but off centre to Charing Cross Road where the small end pavilion retains its cupola. The canted corner, its upper floor windows obscured by large hoarding, is finished off by an openwork metal cupola appropriately, given the theatre's name, supporting a biga. The parapets were also originally crowned with gladiatorial statues. The interior with arena form auditorium much altered.

Listing NGR: TQ2993480839

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hippodrome at Wikipedia
• Hippodrome official website
• Wikidata Q1150147

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)