Royalty Theatre, Glasgow

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The Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, later known as the Lyric Theatre, stood at the corner of Sauchiehall Street and Renfield Street. It was built in 1879 as part of a Central Halls Company development chaired by David Rattray and was one of Frank Matcham’s early theatre designs. In 1895 it joined with Baillie Michael Simons of Glasgow to form the Howard & Wyndham Ltd company. The Royalty hosted plays, opera and musical comedy, and later became a home for repertory theatre. The writer Neil Munro had associations with the theatre, including references to productions like Letty and Macpherson in his work. In 1914 the Royalty was renamed the Lyric Theatre after being sold to the YMCA. A fire in 1953 led to rebuilding, but the theatre was demolished in 1959 and replaced by St. Andrew House, a large concrete office block that today operates as a hotel.