Camden Palace Theatre, Regent's Park, London

Entry Name: Camden Palace Theatre

Listing Date: 28 June 1972

Last Amended: 11 January 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1272425

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476805

Also known as: The Music Machine
Camden Palace
Camden Theatre
Camden Hippodrome Theatre
Camden Hippodrome Picture Theatre
KOKO London

ID on this website: 101272425

Location: Camden Town, Camden, London, NW1

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Regent's Park

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Pancras Old Church

Church of England Diocese: London

Tagged with: Theatre Cinema Nightclub Music venue

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Description

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

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