1886 – Leinster Hall, Hawkin’s Street, Dublin
Constructed by 1886 as the Leinster Hall after a fire in 1879 destroyed the Theatre Royal on this site.
Constructed by 1886 as the Leinster Hall after a fire in 1879 destroyed the Theatre Royal on this site.
The previous Her Majesty’s Theatre was demolished in 1892, before actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree acquired the site and began to build his new venue.
Originally constructed by Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon in 1871 with carving by the Fitzpatrick Brothers.
Deesigned by the theatre architect C.J. Phipps, who also designed the 1871 Gaiety Theatre in Dublin,
The building, originally called ‘The Athenaeum’, was finished by early 1855. It hosted its first performance on 29 January 1855,
The second Theatre Royal but on the same Hawkins Street site as the first, opened on December 13,
Unsuccessful design published in The Architect, December 26th 1877. Designed as a political and cultural monument,
Recently given a new glass and steel canopy overhanging a much widened footpath on a mainly pedestrianised street,
Richard D’Oyly Carte bought the site of the former Savoy Palace (later the Savoy Hospital) in 1880 to build the Savoy Theatre specifically for the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas,
The Her Majesty’s Theatre adjacent, which still stands, is only indicated in these elevations. The architect was Charles John Phipps also,