Queen's Hall
The Queen's Hall was a concert hall opened in 1893 in central London . It was particularly known for being the founding site of the Proms concert series , which Robert Newman launched there in 1895 .
The concert hall was on Langham Place and had a total of 17 entrances and exits on three streets (the other two streets were Riding House Street and Great Portland Street ). It had up to 3,000 seats on an area of around 2,000 m². The building was designed by Thomas Edward Knightley (1824–1905), who was based on a floor plan by Charles John Phipps , and was considered a performance venue with "perfect acoustics". Later adaptations by 1919 reduced the capacity to 2,400 places.
The Queen's Hall had to close in 1941 because the auditorium burned down as a result of a single incendiary bomb hit (during a massive air raid that also destroyed the House of Commons Chamber and many other buildings).
From 1954 to 1955 a feasibility study was made under the chairmanship of Lord Robbins, which dealt with the reconstruction as "New Queen's Hall". This came to the following conclusion: From a musical point of view, it is desirable to replace the destroyed Queen's Hall with a new large hall with good acoustic quality. However, there are doubts that there is a sufficiently high demand for the company to leave the existing, subsidized concert halls without having to withdraw listeners (“On musical grounds it is desirable to replace the destroyed Queen's Hall by another large hall of good acoustic qualities, but it is Doubtful if there is a potential demand which would enable it to run without subtracting from the audiences of subsidized halls already in existence. ")
The former location of the Queen's Hall is now the St George's Hotel . The property is owned by the Crown Estate .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 5 " N , 0 ° 8 ′ 33" W.