The Pantheon
OXFORD STREET, owing to much-discussed changing working patterns and consumer purchasing habits, is a poignant area to pass along now for those who remember how things used to be even as recently as 15 years ago. At least none of us was around to witness the sorry decline of the Pantheon, the street’s finest architectural gem, which was finally demolished in 1937.
When this now long-forgotten venue opened 250 years ago this year, it was hailed as ‘the most astonishing and perfect piece of architecture that can possibly be conceived’ by the
