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Chambers are at numbers 9–11 on the north side, immediately opposite The Drill Hall and on the corner with Huntley Street. The building was originally known as Chenies Street Chambers Ladies Residential Dwellings and was designed as flats for single professional women on behalf of the
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hit it and started a fire. There were no casualties but the building was marked as so damaged as to make rebuilding doubtful. It was rebuilt, but with the entrance moved from
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was completed in 1942 and has two above ground entrances, one on the north side of
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Minerva dealer in England. The design of the building includes three large bays on the ground floor flanked by two entrance ways each marked Minerva House. Above are three storeys of offices with a statue of
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The Jewish High School for Girls and Day
Training College for Teachers moved to Chenies Street in 1881 following the construction of a new building at a cost of over £8,000, funded by a gift from
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and contains rehearsal rooms, offices, the refectory and the RADA library. The building was purchased by RADA in 1990 with the help of the royalties left to the academy by
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on the top floor. The building and the rest of the crescent once looked out on to gardens until the deep-level shelter was built during the Second World War.
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at 16 Chenies Street previously occupied by the
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