Catalogue description PANTHEON OXFORD STREET

This record is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

Details of E/PAN
Reference: E/PAN
Title: PANTHEON OXFORD STREET
Description:

The documents listed are counterparts of such leases. For a detailed account of the Pantheon see The Survey of London Vol.XXXI. St James Westminster Part II North of Piccadilly (pp.265-283)
Date: 1774 - 1788
Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Twist, Phillip Elias, fl 1769-1781
Physical description: 10 Files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Records of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, the estate of Philip Elias Twist, received in the Greater London Record Office, County Hall, London, SE1 14 October 1976 (Ac.76.126B)
Subjects:
  • Theatre
Administrative / biographical background:

Philip Elias Twist decided in 1769 to build on his land in Oxford Street a building suitable for public entertainment, an 'indoor Ranelagh'. It was to be called the Pantheon. The project was financed by selling 50 shares in the building and its profit, in the form of leases for 61 years.

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