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Newington Butts is a former hamlet, now an area of the London Borough of Southwark, London, England, that gives its name to a segment of the A3 road running south-west from the Elephant and Castle junction.
Newington Butts was one of the very earliest of the Elizabethan theatres and the furthest south of them all. This Elizabethan playhouse ran from 1576 to 1595 near Newington Butts at the south western end of New Kent Road, Elephant and Castle.
The Newington Butts Theatre was one of the earliest Elizabethan theatres, possibly predating even The Theatre of 1576 and the Curtain Theatre, which are usually regarded as the first playhouses built around London.
In-depth. In or around 1576 James Savage opened a playhouse at Newington Butts about a mile south of the river, near what is now the Elephant and Castle district. Plays were performed there until 1595, and our records tell us that Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus were performed at this ...
Oct 23, 2012 · Today, the name of the early settlement lives on in two roads- Newington Causeway and Newington Butts which lie either side of the present day junction.
4 days ago · NEWINGTON BUTTS IN 1820. In the high road between the "Elephant and Castle" and Kennington Park stands the old Newington Grammar School, with the date 1666 over the door.
When a riot in Southwark broke out on June 23, 1592, the Privy Council closed Newington Butts and all of the other playhouses around London. A brief time after this ruling, Lord Strange's Men were granted permission to resume acting, not in their former abode, the Rose, but at the more unpopular Newington Butts.
