Blackfriars Rotunda
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The Blackfriars Rotunda was a building in Southwark, near the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge across the River Thames in London, that existed from 1787 to 1958 in various forms. It initially housed
Street view of the Rotunda as Leverian Museum.
Panorama detail; the portico of the street entrance to the Rotunda stands out.
Leverian Museum admission ticket depicting Father Time and the unveiling and illumination of Mother Nature
Leverian Museum collection in the Rotunda. Engraving by William Skelton after Sarah Stone and Charles Reuben Ryley.
Surrey Institution
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The Surrey Institution was an organisation devoted to scientific, literary and musical education and research, based in London. It was founded by private subscription in 1807, taking the Royal Institu
Blackfriars Rotunda
…in various forms. It initially housed the collection of the Leverian Museum after it had been disposed of by lottery. For a period it was home to the Surrey Institution. In the early 1830s it notoriously was the centre for the activities of the Rotunda radicals. Its subsequent existence was long but less remarkable…
Lecture Hall of the Surrey Institution, c.1808, aquatint by Joseph Constantine Stadler
Satirical print by Thomas Rowlandson, Friedrich Christian Accum lectures at the Surrey Institution, about 1810.