Georgian Theatre (Stockton-on-Tees)

• Theatre ID
  1652
• Built / Converted
  1766
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Theatre
• Address
  Green Dragon Yard, Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, TS18 1AT, England

Details

Built as Stockton’s tithe barn, the theatre conversion of 1766 was quite radical, raising the original sandstone walls in brickwork (a fact recorded by Winston in The Theatric Tourist, 1805). From 1874-93 it was used by the Salvation Army and afterwards became a confectionery factory. Gabled with pantiled roof, approached at the south end from the cobbled passage called Green Dragon Yard. A lean-to structure at the southern end is relatively modern. Adjoining is a cottage which was used as a drawing room, actors entering the theatre through a door at the stage end of the east wall. Internally, an uninterrupted volume with an open timber roof and no architectural features of note. The evidence of the Georgian theatre is now of an archaeological nature (Richard Southern found traces of a former balcony). It has been fitted up as a theatre for special occasions since 1980 and currently serves mostly as a music venue.

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• Other names
  Theatre, Theatre Royal, Stockton Theatre, Oxford Music Hall, Oxford Theatre of Varieties, Royal Concert Hall
• Events
  • 1600 - 1699 Design/Construction: as a tithe barn
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1766 Alteration: converted to a theatre
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1818 Alteration: repaired and twelve boxes added
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1874 Alteration: converted to Salvation Army citadel
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1766 Owner/Management: Thomas Bates
  • 1787 Owner/Management: Thomas Cawdell
  • 1798 Owner/Management: George Graham & James Field Stanfield
  • 1802 Owner/Management: Stephen George Kemble
  • 1805 Owner/Management: Anderson & Samuel Faulkner
  • 1813 Owner/Management: Henry Stephen Kemble
  • 1815 Owner/Management: Anderson & Faulkener
  • 1820 Owner/Management: Mr Anderson
  • 1822 Owner/Management: Thomas Sheffield
  • 1824 Owner/Management: Edward Hillingdon & John Bland
  • 1825 Owner/Management: John Bland
  • 1827 Owner/Management: John Bland & Edward Crook
  • 1828 Owner/Management: Edward Crook
  • 1829 Owner/Management: William Mitchell
  • 1831 Owner/Management: Mitchell-J E Parry
  • 1832 Owner/Management: Samuel Roxby & William Roxby Beverley Jnr
  • 1848 Owner/Management: Charles Frederick Marshall & Alfred Davis
  • 1851 Owner/Management: J W Benson
  • 1858 Owner/Management: George Owen
  • 1860 Owner/Management: J F Rogers
  • 1861 Owner/Management: Henry Powell
  • 1863 Owner/Management: Catherine Lucette & Morton Price
  • 1863 Owner/Management: Richard & Robert Stoddard
  • 1863 Owner/Management: Henry Powell
  • 1864 Owner/Management: Lucette & Price
  • 1864 Owner/Management: W R Waldron
  • 1865 - 1866 Owner/Management: Robert Douglas
  • 1866 Owner/Management: Frank H Hall
  • 1866 Owner/Management: J Samuels
  • 1867 Owner/Management: W Sullivan & J Samuels
  • 1867 Owner/Management: Joseph & Thomas Dufour with Harry Davis
  • 1869 Owner/Management: F H Hall
  • 1869 Owner/Management: Richard Stoddart
  • 1870 Owner/Management: George Mustard and others
  • 1870 Owner/Management: James & Agnes Spence with H Trippas
  • 1874 Owner/Management: Jenny Lewis
  • 1874 Owner/Management: W R Waldron
  • 1874 Owner/Management: Ennis Lawson
• Capacities
  • Current: c.100
• Listings
  • Grade II
• Unreliable anecdotes
  The Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 17th March 1868 p4, states that Oxford Music Hall soon to close as building sold for warehouses, but it continued as a theatre