Plaque

Victoria Palace Theatre - Re-imagined

Erection date: 2017

Inscription

Victoria Palace Theatre designed by Frank Matcham for Alfred Butt, 1911, re-imagined by Cameron Mackintosh, 2017.
Interior Designer: Clare Ferraby
Architect: Julian Middleton

Site: Victoria Palace Theatre (2 memorials)

SW1, Victoria Street, Victoria Palace Theatre

In our photo the plaque can be seen to the right of the main entrance, above the woman's head.

The plaque is laid into a small aperture in the wall shaped like a fanlight, but there is no door or window below, and the spacing is such that we can't think there ever was. Google Maps street view goes back to July 2008 and shows this fanlight filled with a grill, out of which protrudes an ugly pipe, still in place in 2016, after which the renovation works began. These images support the decision to carry out the works but don't help to explain the origins of the  fanlight. Arthur Lloyd has some early, undated, images of the theatre frontage and in one of them (admittedly only a drawing) the fanlight is clearly absent.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Victoria Palace Theatre - Re-imagined

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Victoria Palace Theatre

The first theatre on this site was built in 1832. The current one, designed b...

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Sir Alfred Butt

 Theatre impressario, Conservative politician, racehorse owner.  Born London....

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Frank Matcham

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Clare Ferraby

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Cameron Mackintosh

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Julian Middleton

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