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Associated architectural firm [s] Buildings. Piccadilly Theatre, London. Palace Theatre, Manchester. Shaftesbury Theatre, London. Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds. Architecture portal. William Robert 'Bertie' Crewe (1860 – 10 January 1937) was one of the leading English theatre architects in the boom of 1885 to 1915.
TheatreLocationBuild Date18881889189016 February 1891Bertie Crewe was born during the 1860s and educated at Merchant Taylor's School in London. He was articled to Clement Dowling and attended Atelier Lacoux, Paris. Returning to London he found employment as assistant in the office of Thomas Walter Laurence Emden for two years and then to William George Robert Sprague a distinguished theatre architect with whom Bertie Crewe was in partnership ...
From the ERA, March 28th 1908. r. Bertie Crewe, the well-known architect, tells us that the idea of engaging in theatrical architecture occurred to him some twenty-three years ago, when he was a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. There he met all the leading French designers of theatres, and from them gained much valuable knowledge.
Search for: 'Bertie Crewe' in Oxford Reference ». (c. 1860–1937).Essex-born English architect. He became an important and prolific designer, responsible for over 100 theatres and music-halls as well as several early cinemas. His buildings include the New Prince's (later Shaftesbury) Theatre, London (1911), the Hippodrome, Golders Green (1910 ...
2485. Built in 1913 and designed by Bertie Crewe, the theatre stands on a prominent site alongside Golders Green Underground station and viewable across a large open forecourt. The principal façade is symmetrical, in stucco or reconstructed stone, with a three storey centre in seven bays divided by piers with Ionic capitals, carrying a full ...
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Built in 1899 and designed by Bertie Crewe, the Victoria Theatre in Salford is Grade II listed. This architecturally important theatre has a fine terracotta façade with much stained glass and a beautiful and intimate auditorium featuring richly scrolled plasterwork. There are substantial remains of wooden sub-stage machinery including a ...