Wilton's Music Hall
The world's oldest surviving grand music hall, built in 1858 behind a row of Wapping terraced houses and still used today as a working theatre and performance venue.
- Landmark
- Price: Free
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Did you know
After its music hall days ended, the building spent decades as a Methodist mission hall and then a rag-sorting warehouse, and its deliberately unrestored, peeling interior, kept that way rather than polished up, is now part of its appeal as a performance space.
Local tip
Check the events calendar before visiting, since the building is primarily a working theatre rather than a museum, and the best way to see the atmospheric hall itself is by attending a show rather than a daytime look-around.
Finding it
- Address
- 1, Graces Alley, East Smithfield, St. George in the East, Wapping, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, E1 8JB
- Nearest station
- Tower Gateway DLR Station, 615 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
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