Hippodrome Theatre - Charing Cross Road, London, UK
N 51° 30.680 W 000° 07.713
30U E 699247 N 5710598
An interesting theatre with a terracotta facade.
Waymark Code: WMC4BJ
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/24/2011
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Built form 1895 to 1900 by Frank Matcham. Red sandstone, leaded and slated roofs. Ornate, freely handled French Renaissance with theatrically Baroque skyline. Island block of 5 storeys. Five bays wide to Charing Cross Road, canted corner and 8-bay return to Cranbourn Street. Pub front and shops and canopied corner entrance to theatre on ground floor. Balustraded 1st floor with windows flanked by volute-like caryatids. Shallow canted bay windows through 2 floors above. Sill, string courses and cornices with balustraded parapet broken by 2 shaped pediments, that to Cranbourn Street central but off centre to Charing Cross Road where the small end pavilion retains its cupola. The canted corner, its upper floor windows obscured by large hoarding, is finished off by an openwork metal cupola appropriately, given the theatre's name, supporting a quadriga. The parapets were also originally crowned with gladiatorial statues.
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