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The site for a new theatre was chosen by John Wood, the Elder, who laid out much of the city, on the site of the old orchard of Bath Abbey. [6] Construction work for the theatre in Old Orchard Street began in 1748, to designs by the architect Thomas Jolly of Hippesley and Watts, with the work being completed by John Powell in 1750. [1]
The theatre was erected in 1805, replacing the Old Orchard Street Theatre which had obtained a royal patent in 1768 enabling the use of the title 'Theatre Royal', the first to achieve this outside London. [3] [4] The Orchard Street site became a church and is now a Freemason's Hall. [5]
1768 – The Theatre Royal, Bath (Old Orchard Street Theatre) and Theatre Royal, Norwich, assume these titles having been granted Royal Patents, making them officially England's only legal provincial theatres. [29] 1769 – The Circus ("King's Circus") houses completed to the design of John Wood, the Younger. [19]
Records indicate that Pierrepont Place and properties on it were built by John Wood the Elder between 1732 and 1748, on land once belonging to monks of Bath Abbey, who had used it as an orchard. Most houses on the street are Grade II listed Georgian townhouses and include 4 Pierrepont Place (Grade II listed and built between 1740 and 1750), [1 ...
Palmer was the eldest son of a prosperous Bath brewer and theatre owner who inherited his father's Old Orchard Street Theatre, and obtained a royal letters patent for it in 1768 which gave him an effective monopoly on playhouses in the city and the right to use the title "Theatre Royal", the first theatre outside London to acquire it. [3]
PORT ORCHARD -- Longtime theater group Western Washington Center for the Arts is moving after 22 years, and going out in celebratory style before settling into a new location along Bay Street.
Bath became the centre of fashionable life in England during the 18th century when its Old Orchard Street Theatre and architectural developments such as Lansdown Crescent, [150] the Royal Crescent, [151] The Circus, and Pulteney Bridge were built. [152]
In a seven-year collaboration, Bed Bath & Beyond entered into a $17 million term loan credit agreement. Some $8.5 million of that is a convertible note, which means it can be converted into stock ...