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The Queen's Hall was a classical music concert hall in Central London, opened in 1893 but is best known for being where The Promenade Concerts were founded in 1895.Situated in Langham Place, although having a total of 17 entrances and exits on three streets (the other two being Riding House Street and Great Portland Street), it had seating for up to 3,000 within a floor area of 21,000 square feet (2,000 mē). It was considered to have a 'perfect acoustic' and was designed by Thomas Edward Knightley . Internal alterations, completed in 1919 reduced the capacity to 2,400.
It closed in 1941 after the auditorium was gutted by fire after a single incendiary bomb hit the building during a massive air raid in which the the chamber of the House of Commons and many other buildings were also destroyed.
. In 1954-55 a report was commissioned, chaired by Lord Robbins, into the feasability of a replacement, the 'New Queen's Hall' but which concluded: On musical grounds it is desirable to replace the destroyed Queen's Hall by another large hall of good acoustic qualities, but it is doubtful if there is a potential demand which would enable it to run without subtracting from the audiences of subsidised halls already in existence.
Its former site is now the St Georges Hotel.
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