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Wilton's Music Hall

Wilton’s Music Hall is the only surviving example of a Victorian Giant Pub Music Hall, anywhere. It was in halls like this that variety entertainment as we know it evolved. We worked with Wilton’s Music Hall Trust for nine years to raise the funds to save the Music Hall. We took a new approach to Conservation, by not ‘restoring’ the building in the usual sense, but by doing only what was essential to make it secure, safe and useable, aiming to preserve the very special atmosphere Wilton’s has of a derelict theatre rediscovered.

 

Wilton’s Music Hall

Completion: 2015
Location: London

Wilton’s Music Hall is the only surviving example of a Victorian Giant Pub Music Hall - it was in halls like this that variety entertainment as we know it evolved. We worked with Wilton’s Music Hall Trust for nine years to raise the funds needed to save the Music Hall. We took a new approach to Conservation, not “restoring” the building in the usual sense, but by doing only what was essential to make it secure, safe and usable, aiming to preserve the very special atmosphere of a derelict theatre rediscovered.

 
there was great skill deployed in the way the building has been reconfigured and upgraded without a loss of patina and atmosphere.
— RIBA Jury
it’s the real thing, adroitly managed. Ronalds, by downplaying his visible architecture almost to zero, has proved exactly what a good architect, with an engaged client, can do.
— Hugh Pearman, RIBA Journal
A remarkable restoration project breathes life back into one of London’s unique music venues
— Ellis Woodman, Architecture Today

Awards

RIBA National Award for Architecture
RIBA London Building of the Year 
RIBA London Award for Architecture 
RIBA London Conservation Award 
New London Awards: Restoration Winner 
RICS Building Conservation Award


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