Jay completed this stunning theater, pictured c.1894, in 1818. In a letter to the Editor of The Georgian dated December 1818, a certain Peregrinus revealed its world class design. Jay's friend from his Royal Academy days, William Etty, R.A., painted classical panels for it. The building underwent a number of alterations until it was finally lost to fire in 1948. The eyebrows were visible in an 1855 aerial view, but the iron canopy over the portico had not yet been added. A drawing from just a few years earlier was the basis for this early 20th century rendering without the canopy: