Detail of Royal Opera House, Bow Street
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Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 10 Oct 2014
A pair of dwarf pilasters crowned by garlanded urns. The building history is complicated; this belongs to the fly tower which dates only from the 1980s but was built in keeping with E.M. Barry's main building of the 1850s. The sky portended rain but did not deliver.