Stamford Hotel

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Venue Type & Location

Hotel

Site Name: Stamford Hotel
Location: Stamford
County: Huntingdonshire
Location Type: Town - in town at determined location

Overview

  • Address: 16 St. Mary’s Street (in 1882) Stamford.
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  • Performance Space Description: The hotel seems to have been a rather stately, impressive building in the classical style. James Stevens Curl describes it as a “handsome Greek Revival” featuring “a Giant Order derived from the Coragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens” (166), for instance, while David Watkins makes note of its “engaged Corinthian columns rising through the two upper storeys” (106). In addition to providing accommodations for travelers, the building contained a large banqueting or assembly room in which entertainments took place. For a more extensive description of the building and an image of its exterior, see Richardson & Donaldson (pp116 and 124, respectively).



    • Performance History

  • The Stamford Hotel was constructed from designs by John Linnell Bond, with funds supplied by Sir Gerard Noel. There is some disagreement about the age of the building (some accounts suggest that construction began in 1810, while others suggest that the hotel dates from the 1820s.)



  • Theodore Corbett claims that it served as “a political center, a Whig counterweight to the political influence of the Cecil family” (22). In addition to being a hotel, he writes, it “was thus a meeting place and power base for an opposition party” (ibid).



  • Though the hotel is no longer operational, much of the original building still exists. The room in which performances took place may well be the ‘ballroom’ that now serves as a studio for a local dance school.




    Please see the 'Bibliographic Sources' link at right for a complete listing of materials (both primary and secondary) from which the above information was compiled.


    Beth Marquis

    • Troupes at Stamford Hotel

    Troupe Troupe Type # of events
    "Ethiopian Serenaders" (impostors) Minstrel 1

    Events at Stamford Hotel

    Event Date Venue Location Troupe
    Minstrel Show 8 December 1851 - 13 December 1851 Stamford, Huntingdonshire "Ethiopian Serenaders" (impostors)

    Bibliographic Sources

    • Corbett, Theodore. The Making of American Resorts. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2001.
    • Jourdain, Margaret. English Interior Decoration, 1500 to 1830. London: Batsford, 1950.
    • Richardson, A.E. and H. Donaldson Eberlein. The English Inn Past and Present. New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1968.
    • Rogers, Alan. The Making of Stamford. Leicester: Leicester UP, 1965.
    • Stevens Curl, James. Georgian Architecture. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1993.
    • Watkin, David. Regency: A Guide and Gazetteer. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1982.
    • Welland School of Dancing Website. 03/13/2008 (http://www.wellandschoolofdancing.co.uk/index.asp)

      (Contains images of what may be the current state of the old banqueting rooms).

    • White, William. History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire. 4th ed. Sheffield: William White, 1882.