Cadogan Hall
Concert hall in Chelsea, London
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Cadogan Hall /kəˈdʌɡən/ is a 953-seat-capacity[1] concert hall in Sloane Terrace in Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.
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| General information | |
| Type | Concert hall |
| Architectural style | Byzantine Revival architecture |
| Location | Sloane Terrace, Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Completed | 1907 (as a church); 2004 (as a concert hall) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architects | Robert Fellowes Chisholm (original building); Paul Davis and Partners Architects (2004 conversion) |
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| Seating capacity | 953 |
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| cadoganhall.com/ | |
The resident music ensemble at Cadogan Hall is the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO). Cadogan Estates offered the RPO the use of the hall as its principal venue in late 2001.[2] The RPO gave its first concert as the resident ensemble of Cadogan Hall in November 2004.[3] From 2005 to 2021 Cadogan Hall was used by the BBC for a handful of Proms concerts. [4][5]
Cadogan Hall has also been used as a recording venue. In February 2006, a recording of Mozart symphonies with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists was produced and made available immediately after the performances.[6][7] In 2009, art rock band Marillion recorded a concert there which was released on the album Live from Cadogan in 2011.
Building
The building is a former Church of Christ, Scientist church, completed in 1907 to designs in the Byzantine Revival style by architect Robert Fellowes Chisholm, who also designed the Napier Museum in Kerala, India.[8] The stained glass is by the Danish sculptor and stained-glass artist Arild Rosenkrantz.[9] The building was listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England in April 1969.[10]
Organ
The church had a three-manual pipe organ built by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd in 1907 and installed in 1911.[11] It was on a raised position on the platform. The organ was removed in 2004, and the pipes in 2006.[11] The original intention had been to install the organ in a church in the Midlands,[9] but instead, in 2009-10, it was installed in Christ the King Catholic Church in Gothenburg, Sweden.[11] Walker's organ case remains in place in the concert hall.[12]
Conversion to a concert hall
By 1996, the congregation had diminished dramatically and the building had fallen into disuse.[13] Mohamed Fayed, then owner of Harrods, had acquired the property, but was unable to secure permission to convert the building to a palatial luxury house on account of its status as a listed building. Cadogan Estates Ltd (the property company owned by Earl Cadogan, whose ancestors have been the main landowners in Chelsea since the 18th century; the nearby Cadogan Square and Cadogan Place are also named after them) purchased the building in 2000.[2] It was refurbished in 2004 by Paul Davis and Partners Architects at a cost of £7.5 million.[14] The changes included new lighting and sound systems and bespoke acoustic ceiling modules in the performance space.[13]
