New Music-Hall, Evan's Hotel, Covent-Garden, 1856. 'The new Hall has been built from the designs of Mr. William Finch brilliancy of effect is ten rich cut-glass gaseliers, or lustres for gas, eight of which have ten lights each, and two over the orchestra fifteen lights each; the entire number of gaslights being glass designed and manufactured by Messrs. Defries and are hung at such a height as to diffuse an abundant flood of light without fatigue to the the sides of the richly-ornamented open plates for


New Music-Hall, Evan's Hotel, Covent-Garden, 1856. 'The new Hall has been built from the designs of Mr. William Finch brilliancy of effect is ten rich cut-glass gaseliers, or lustres for gas, eight of which have ten lights each, and two over the orchestra fifteen lights each; the entire number of gaslights being glass designed and manufactured by Messrs. Defries and are hung at such a height as to diffuse an abundant flood of light without fatigue to the the sides of the richly-ornamented open plates for the admission of fresh warm air, the vitiated being driven through the pierced panels in the ceiling, and thence through the louvres in the roof. The of Bath stone, fluted with wreathed Ionic each of the eight pilasters there are Poetry, Drama, Music, &c'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.


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