Approximate Location Map
Large Map »
Latitude: 51.5116 / 51°30'41"N
Longitude: -0.1335 / 0°8'0"W
OS Eastings: 529622
OS Northings: 180839
OS Grid: TQ296808
Mapcode National: GBR GD.69
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.M8SJ
Plus Code: 9C3XGV68+JJ
Entry Name: The Apollo Theatre
Listing Date: 28 June 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1236173
English Heritage Legacy ID: 427104
ID on this website: 101236173
Location: Soho, Westminster, London, W1D
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: West End
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Anne Soho
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Theatre Organisation Music venue Art Nouveau Art Nouveau architecture
CITY OF WESTMINSTER SHAFTESBURY AVENUE W1
TQ 2980 NE The Apollo Theatre
71/54 (including No 8 Archer
28-6-72 Street)
GV II
Theatre,1901 by Lewen Sharp with sculptured work by T. Simpson. Stone faced, plain
brick to Rupert Street and Denmark Street. Shaftesbury Avenue front in a Free
Renaissance style. 3 main storeys and a tall attic. 3 major bays wide, the outer two
as pavilions with shallow canted fronts. Arcaded ground floor foyer and gallery-circle
entrances, under glass canopy supported on elaborate ornamental iron brackets. 1st
floor central loggia and pedimented flanking windows. Attic storey above main
entablature, with enriched oeil de boeuf windows and crowning cornice. The pavilion
attics are treated as short circular turrets with shallow domes, rather Art Nouveau
in character and are enhanced by figure sculpture of heroic scale. Rich interior
(slightly simplified by Schaufelberg in 1932) with foyer and ante-room to Royal Box;
the auditorium with elaborate plasterwork in "Louis XIV" style. 3 cantilevered
balconies flowing into the serpentine fronts of richly ornamental tiers of boxes
flanking the proscenium - single box at stage level, pairs at dress and upper circle
levels with modelled terms supporting the gallery "box" above; architraved proscenium
with figure relief composition to tympanum over. Richly ornamental shallow domed
ceiling on pendentives, etc. Lewen Sharp's only theatre, although he also altered
the Camberwell Palace of Varieties in 1908.
Listing NGR: TQ2962280839
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
