Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall began life as an idea of permanent public arts facilities after the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, organised by Prince Albert, the Prince Consort. The foundation stone was laid on 20 May 1867, and Queen Victoria later changed the intended name—Central Hall of Arts and Sciences—to the Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences in memory of her husband, who had died six years earlier. Designed by Francis Fowke in an Italianate style, the hall opened in 1871 with Queen Victoria’s opening. Today, it seats 5,272 and remains closely tied to the Prince Consort memorial landscape: the hall is described as the practical part of the memorial, with the decorative part being the Albert Memorial to the north in Kensington Gardens, separated by Kensington Gore. …
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