[1] The Stables (now the Concert Hall) and the Riding School (now the Corn Exchange) were commissioned by the Prince Regent to the designs of William Porden in the early 19th century.
The designs featured richly coloured paintings, stained glass windows and a large gas powered chandelier formed the centrepiece to the room.
[1] Concert Hall events included weekly Methodist services on Sunday evenings, which attracted large crowds in the post-war period.
[8] The Studio Theatre stands on the site of stables which were built for Maria Fitzherbert, a long-term companion of the Prince Regent, in 1808.
Between 1 December 1914 and 15 February 1916 over 4,000 wounded Indian soldiers were nursed back to health at the makeshift hospitals set up inside the buildings of the Royal Pavilion estate.
[4] The complex became a popular venue for concerts: the band, The Who, performed there in April 1967,[10] and, the suite that would become The Dark Side of the Moon was premièred at the Dome by Pink Floyd on 20 January 1972.
[12] The UK's national selection show Eurovision: You Decide was held in the venue on 7 February 2018, hosted by Mel Giedroyc and Måns Zelmerlöw.
The first pipe organ in the Dome's Concert Hall was built in 1870 by the famous London firm of Henry Willis & Sons to a specification of forty-four stops spread over four manuals and pedals.