I was invited to visit the Woolwich Rotunda, one of the great monuments of the Regency, designed by John Nash, the Prince Regent’s architect, in 1814 to celebrate the centenary of the Hanoverian Accession and moved to Woolwich in 1818 to become a museum for the Royal Artillery – yes, before the opening of the National Gallery in 1824.

When I first visited it in 1972, it was still a museum, but the museum closed in 1999, the building was vacated in 2010, and the new display, Firepower, had a short life span, closing in 2016.

So, what should happen to it now ?

I hope it can be acquired by the Rotunda Trust which has been set up specifically  in order to preserve a building of extraordinary architectural and more purely structural interest:-