Features
The Royal Panopticon was an imposing iconic building flanked by 100 ft minarets. This was a very large building for the time. The facade had tiles made by Minton and shields and coats of arms of the most prominent scientists, writers and artists, including Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Humphry Davy and of course Queen Victoria. It boasted that it had the largest organ in the world when it opened, and the organist of the day, Edmund Thomas Chipp gave daily recitals. When the Panopticon closed in 1856 to become a theatre, the organ was sold to St Pauls Cathedral.
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