Principal sources

Cole, Emily, Sarah Newsome, and Verena McCaig. The Woolwich Rotunda: From Waltzes to Wargames. Liverpool University Press, 2025.
Publisher's page

Cole, Emily, Susan Skedd, Jonathan Clarke, and Sarah Newsome. The Rotunda (Former Royal Artillery Museum), Woolwich Common, London Borough of Greenwich: History, Structure and Landscape. Historic England Research Report Series 251/2020.
Full report (PDF) via the Waterloo Association

Clarke, Jonathan. "The Woolwich Rotunda." Construction History, Vol. 21 (2005), pp. 3-24.

Crosby Granger Architects. Woolwich Rotunda, Condition Report (2023) RevE 2025. Prepared for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation.

Hunt, T. F. Exemplars of Tudor Architecture Adapted to Modern Habitations. London: Longman, 1830.

Articles and features

Catling, Chris. "From Royal Hall to Cannonballs: Rediscovering the Many Lives of the Woolwich Rotunda." The Past, November 2025.
Read online

Royal Artillery Museum. "Historic England Book Celebrates the Rotunda."
royalartillerymuseum.com

Official records

Historic England. The Rotunda (Royal Artillery Museum), NHLE 1078987.
Listed building entry

Historic England. Heritage at Risk Register.
historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk

Royal Borough of Greenwich. Woolwich Barracks SPD Issues and Options Consultation Document, 2025.
Consultation document (PDF)

Institutional links

Royal Artillery Museum. "Our History."
royalartillerymuseum.com/about-us/our-history

Historic England. The Woolwich Rotunda. Publication page for the 2025 monograph.
historicengland.org.uk

The Waterloo Association. Research report hosting and Napoleonic War context.
waterlooassociation.org.uk

Wikimedia Commons. Category: Rotunda, Woolwich. Freely licensed images of the building.
commons.wikimedia.org

Image credits

Interior photographs of the Rotunda (2026) by FennecMedia, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Historical prints, archival drawings, and portraits from Wikimedia Commons. Public domain unless otherwise stated. The exterior establishing shot is by Stephen Craven (CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph). Other exterior views from Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0.

The section drawing of the polygon building at Carlton House (May 1814) is from The National Archives, WORK 43/576. Crown copyright expired.

Contact

For enquiries about the trust or the Rotunda, please write to hello@rotundatrust.org.uk.