Mill at Sonning

The Mill at Sonning is a theatre or restaurant, converted beyond an 18th-century grind mill, about an island between the River Thames at Sonning Eye among the English state of Oxfordshire. The stream divides within three, together with the harmony nation constructing the middle branch, spanned through some over the Sonning Backwater Bridges just downstream over the mill. The unique harmony used to be mounted a lot beforehand and was once stated into the Domesday Book. More recently, the Mill complex has been converted into a 215-seat air-conditioned theatre, including a restaurant because pre-theatre foods and also a bar, where the authentic watermill is at present exposed to view.

Close by using is the French Horn hotel, additionally over the river. The theatre has a tiny hydroelectric generator about 18.5 kW. This used to be the first certain installation on the Thames, predating the some at Windsor Castle. In 1984, the Mill at Sonning was once fond a conservation award with the aid of The Times magazine then the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors for the design, restoration or conversion on the abandoned tally into a banquet theatre. The theatre's advance artistic administrator was once Peter Egan. Productions have blanketed part via Anthony Valentine, Judi Dench, June Whitfield, Adam Faith, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, John Junkin yet Brian Cant.