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Latitude: 51.5146 / 51°30'52"N
Longitude: -0.1292 / 0°7'45"W
OS Eastings: 529908
OS Northings: 181178
OS Grid: TQ299811
Mapcode National: GBR HC.47
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.Q617
Plus Code: 9C3XGV7C+R8
Entry Name: Phoenix Theatre
Listing Date: 23 October 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1242926
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476880
ID on this website: 101242926
Location: St Giles, Camden, London, WC2H
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Giles-in-the-Fields
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Theatre
TQ2981SE
798-1/104/197
CAMDEN,
CHARING CROSS ROAD (East side),
Phoenix Theatre
23/10/73
GV II
Theatre. 1929-30. By Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Cecil Masey &
Bertie Crewe. For Sydney Bernstein. Interior by Theodore
Komisarjevsky. Stucco with brick and stone.
EXTERIOR: facades to Charing Cross Road and Phoenix Street.
Charing Cross Road facade on a curved corner with Corinthian
columns from 1st to 2nd floors, curved entablature, attic
storey with 7 deeply recessed rectangular lights and enriched
architraves, those at right and left projecting. Cornice and
pantiled roof. Ground floor has 2 pairs of enriched 2-leaf
doors, each with 14 bevelled lights. Facade to Phoenix Street
ground floor has 3 pairs of enriched 2-leaf doors, each with
bevelled lights and decorative fanlights, recessed between
decorative metal grilles, to either side of which timber
panelled 2-leaf doors recessed in brick architraves.
Continuous metal balcony at first floor level. Central feature
of stone with 3 round-headed windows, from 1st to 2nd floors,
with moulded architraves on Ionic twisted columns and a
balcony. To either side, fluted, paired pilasters. Above, a
richly decorated entablature, modillioned cornice, blocking
course and 4 brick dormers. Flanking this feature, in brick,
at 1st floor level, 12-light metal casement windows with brick
pediment over, at 2nd floor level, 12-light metal windows with
brick lugged architrave.
INTERIOR: of elaborate Renaissance design, both auditorium and
foyer with painted panels by Vladimir Polunin. The elaborately
painted safety curtain forms the fourth wall of the auditorium
decoration and is a key part of the composition.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the interior decoration of this theatre,
well-preserved, anticipates Bernstein's patronage of
Komisarjevsky and Polunin in his subsequent 'Granada' chain of
cinemas.
Listing NGR: TQ2990881178
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