Theatre (Boston)

• Theatre ID
  464
• Built / Converted
  1777
• Dates of use
  • 1777 - 1805
• Current state
  Façade only
• Current use
  converted to other use (Shops, formerly warehouse)
• Address
  Market Place, Boston, Lincolnshire, England

Details

Reportedly erected ‘at the expense of the Corporation’ and used by the Lincoln circuit of the Robertson family. The theatre closed in 1805. In use as a seed warehouse after 1820. Interior gutted. Three-storey façe, three windows wide above altered ground floor; pedimental gable. Brown brick with red gauged arches and storey band. The gable has a recessed roundel inscribed ‘1820’. Ground floor much altered with modern shop front. When Richard Leacroft inspected in 1985 he thought that the only internal fabric relating to the theatre were a few beams in the basement.

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• Events
  • 1777 - 1805 Use:
  • 1777 Design/Construction:
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1777 Owner/Management: Boston Corporation, owners
  • 1796 - 1805 Owner/Management: Thomas Shafto Robertson (same circuit as Grantham and Lincoln)
  • 1820 Alteration: converted to warehouse
    • Unknown - Architect
• Listings
  • Grade Not listed
• Stage type
  • Raked
• Dimensions
  • Building dimensions: frontage 32ft 8in