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Edinburgh, Broughton Street, Theatre Royal

Theatre (19th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, Broughton Street, Theatre Royal

Classification Theatre (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Circus; New Theatre Royal, Corri's Rooms; Pantheon; Adelphi Theatre; Queens Theatre

Canmore ID 84022

Site Number NT27SE 564.02

NGR NT 25958 74309

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District City Of Edinburgh
  • Former County Midlothian

Archaeology Notes

NT27SE 564 2596 7431

Site of the second Theatre Royal has been left vacant.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) 29 June 1995

Architecture Notes

Built on site of Queen's Theatre and Opera House and New Theatre Royal

ARCHITECT: David McGibbon, 1865, interior re-built after 1875 fire by C J Phipps.

Demolished c. 1961.

Known originally as the New Theatre Royal it had been converted from Corri's Rooms (a concert hall) and had been a circus prior to that.

Opened 1809, renamed Adelphi in 1823 and destroyed by fire 1853.

Corrie's Rooms

REFERENCE: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND

"St Cecilia's Hall in the Niddry Wynd", Glen, 182, Edinburgh, 1899, 80.

p.142, 281, 144 - reproduction of engraving on old piece of music

Three theatres built and rebuilt on same site.

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Note (13 February 2018)

From the late eighteenth to the mid ninteenth centuries, there were a number of buildings on this site and a number of different occupants, all of which related to entertainment. The late eighteenth century circus became a concert hall and for two years between 1809-11, the Theatre Royal Company decamped from the Theatre Royal, Shakspeare Square, before returning. The building then reverted to a concert venue called variously over a period Corri's Room and the Pantheon. The building was converted into the Adelphi Theatre, before succombing to fire in 1853. A new theatre, the Queen's Theatre and Opera House was built on the site c.1854 to a design by David Bryce, this was renamed the Theatre Royal in 1859 (the Theatre Royal, Shakspearre Square having been demolished in 1858) and letters patent moved to the newer building. The theatre suffered various fires, its interior rebuilt by theatre architect, C J Phipps in the 1870's within the Bryce exterior. The final fire occurred in 1946, though only demolished in the early 1960's.

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