New plaque proposed to mark Jersey's first theatre

A set of stone steps leading up to a door for the Regent House. There is a sign on the wall that reads REGENT ROAD and underneath RUETTE DE LA COMEDIE. To the right of the steps is a wall and a path next to a building. There is an ornate iron work lamp post in the foreground.Google Maps

Regent Road Holdings Limited said the site had been home to the island's first dedicated playhouse

Lisa Young
BBC News

A plaque commemorating Jersey's first dedicated theatre has been proposed.

Regent Road Holdings Limited (RRH) has applied for planning permission to add the plaque to Regent House in St Helier.

The company said the plaque would read: "This is the site between 1802 and 1814 of Jersey's first dedicated playhouse The Theatre Royal."

The firm said it wanted to increase people's awareness of the site's historic significance.

Regent House is a Grade 4 listed apartment block designed in the 1940s modern movement style.

The proposed plaque would be 16 in (40 cm) and made of slate.

It would be positioned on the right hand side of the lower ground floor entrance where the steps from La Colomberie turn to those leading up to Regent House.

If approved, the plaque would sit near another which marks the site of the terminus of the Jersey Eastern Railway.

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