Plaque

Frank Matcham - Coliseum

Inscription

Frank Matcham (1854 - 1920) theatre architect, designed this theatre.
Frank Matcham Society

We thank our colleague for spotting and snapping this on a recent visit to the ENO. It's located on the landing by the dress circle bar.

WC2, St Martin's Lane

The Matcham plaque is inside, on the landing for the dress circle bar.

The 1950 film Night and the City shows Richard Widmark entering Brydges Place, the extremely narrow passage immediately to the south of this site.

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Frank Matcham - Coliseum

Theatre architect. Born Newton Abbot, Devon. Never qualified as an architect ...

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London Coliseum Home of English National Opera since 1968, The London Colise...

We counted 5 memorials on the outside of this building: the relief showing Tyburn martyrs at attic level; the Gunne plaque at eye level o...

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The Lascelles plaque is to the right of the central door, Lambourne to the left. Built 1928, architect: John Murray Easton.

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This is a gated mews and the plaque is out of sight from the street. We were lucky that the gate was open on the day we visited. Only a...

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The board is not visually very interesting so we photo'd the church window instead.

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Bishop Richard Challoner, 1691 - 1781, vicar-apostolic of the London District, died here.

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