Erection date: 25/10/1976
The National Theatre, opened by the Queen on 25 October 1976, designed for the South Bank Theatre Board by Denys Lasdun.
SW1, Belvedere Road, National Theatre
This group of plaques is in the ground floor seating area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
National Theatre foundation - 1976
First proposed in 1848, the gestation of the NT is complex (see the NT's own ...
Architect. Born 17 Pembridge Place, Kensington. Died at Charing Cross Hospi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
National Theatre foundation - 1976
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on wh...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
National Theatre foundation - 1976
British Pathe have film of this ceremony: The Queen Mum looks pretty experien...
{Around Her head:} HM Queen Elizabeth Patron Royal National Theatre This pla...
Arthur Onslow (1691 - 1768), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1728 to 1761 lived in a house on this site. (1926)
The bible reference Psalm 118:24 gives "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." A very general-purp...
William Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965 Novelist and playwright lived here 1919 - 1923 "To acquire a habit for reading is to construct for y...
The quotation is one of several variations on the same theme. Possible originators include Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincol...
Neville Chamberlain, 1869 - 1940, Prime Minister, lived here, 1923 - 1935. London County Council
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