London Pavilion
type: Item
description: theatre building in London, Uk
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
city section: Westminster
opening date: 1859-01-01T00:00:00Z
closure date: 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
Address: Piccadilly Circus
Arthur Lloyd.co.uk page: Pavilion.htm#first
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Country: United Kingdom
City: London
Wikidata source: Q2908778
Carthalia ID: 1113
Note: Built 1885 as a variety hall by James Ebenezer Saunders and R. J. Worley at the site of the previous London Pavilion Music Hall (1859-1885). 1900 and 1918 interior alterations. From 1923, giant electric billboards were set up on the façade. 1934 demolition and conversion into a cinema by F. M. Chancellor and Cecil Masey. 1986 demolition and conversion into shops and a wax figure museum. Of the theatre building, only the façade remains.