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Purcell Room ADA
Purcell Room - ADA Phones:
Purcell Room Box Office: 0844 875 0073 (Select Option 2) Calls will cost 7 ppm plus your network access charge.
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To better accommodate your needs, the Purcell Rooms,Southbank has requested that all Accessible Ticketing requests be solicited only through their representatives. Please contact a Purcell Room representative for further help with your ticket purchase.* Advance ticket purchase may be required. * Box office information is subject to change.
Purcell Room - ADA hours:
9am-8pm each day
Reviews and news for “Purcell Room”
- Live Review: caroline + friends at Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Joyzine
- Feilden Clegg Bradley unveils refresh of South Bank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room wallpaper.com
- Black Beauty at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room | Review LondonTheatre1
- Southbank Centre's Purcell Room to reopen after 18 months Music Week
- Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room refurbishment: glowing with renewed lustre The Guardian
The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the Southbank Centre, one of Central London's leading cultural complexes. It is named after the 17th century English composer Henry Purcell and has 370 seats. The Purcell Room has hosted a wide range of chamber music, jazz, mime and poetry recitals. In the context of the Southbank Centre it is the smallest of a set of three venues, the other two being the Royal Festival Hall, a large symphony hall, and the Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH), which is used for orchestral, chamber and contemporary amplified music.
The Purcell Room was built at the same time as the Queen Elizabeth Hall, with which it shared a common foyer building and architectural features as an example of Brutalist architecture. The focus of the building is its interior space and it makes few concessions to external decoration. From outside, even its position within Southbank Centre is not easy to discern. The Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room were designed, with The Hayward, as additions to the Southbank Centre arts complex by Hubert Bennett, head of the architects department of the Greater London Council, with Jack Whittle, F.G West and Geoffrey Horsefall.
The venue was temporarily closed in September 2015, for major renovations, and re-opened in 2018.
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