Where is Blackfriars Rotunda?

Blackfriars Rotunda is in London, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.5079°, -0.1048°.

Gardens · London

Blackfriars Rotunda

Blackfriars Rotunda — a garden in england-london, United Kingdom.

Office block on Blackfriars Road, Southwark - geograph.org.uk - 8095474 — David Howard — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

Dog-friendly

Blackfriars Rotunda is a garden of interest in england-london, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

The Blackfriars Rotunda was a building in Southwark, near the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge across the River Thames in London, that existed from 1787 to 1958 in various forms. It initially housed the collection of the Leverian Museum after it had been disposed of by lottery. For a period it was home to the Surrey Institution. In the early 1830s it notoriously was the centre for the activities of the Rotunda radicals. Its subsequent existence was long but less remarkable.

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Background

Architecture

After trying to run the museum in its old location in Leicester Square, but finding the rent too much, Parkinson with other investors put up the Rotunda Building; it was of his own design (along with his architect son Joseph Parkinson), was constructed by James Burton, and was opened in 1787. The Rotunda building had a central circular gallery and in brick; the roof was conical and in slate. It was located on the south side of the Thames, and at the time was in the county of Surrey. The dimensions were later given as 120 feet by 132 feet, i.e. 1760 square yards; originally the area was under 1000 square yards, however.). The layout is believed to be documented only by a single surviving…

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