The Palace Theatre
THE PALACE THEATRE, APPLETON GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215678
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Palace Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- THE PALACE THEATRE, APPLETON GATE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215678
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Palace Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PALACE THEATRE, APPLETON GATE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE PALACE THEATRE, APPLETON GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newark
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 80092 53938
Details
NEWARK ON TRENT
SK8053NW APPLETON GATE 619-1/9/32 (South East side) The Palace theatre
GV II
Theatre and 2 shops. Built 1920 for Miss Emily Blagg. Altered mid C20, altered and restored 1988. Brick with stucco front and stone and stucco dressings. Hipped and mansard slate and artificial slate roofs. Single external rear wall stack. 2 storeys, 7x12 bays. Angled front has round towers at the angles, topped with cupolas with onion domes, and coped parapets. Main entrance front, to left, has dentillated cornice. 3 glazing bar sashes with eared and shouldered architraves, with swags between them. Under the windows, an altered framed panel with scrolled ends with the theatre's name. Below, full width entrance with dentillated cornice and 2 square piers. Steps with wrought iron handrail. Shops front, to right, has 4 sashes with architraves and swags similar to the entrance front, plus aprons. Below, 2 wooden shopfronts with bracketed dentillated cornices, the right shopfront double width with central door. On either side, 12 full height recessed panels and a range of 11 windows, some of them blank. North east side has, below, 4 doors and 6 windows. South east end has plain round corner towers. Auditorium, narrowed and refitted 1988, has an enriched bow fronted gallery on 3 sides, with boxes. Enriched segmental proscenium arch. Plaster ceiling has enriched dentillated cornice and cove-cornered panels with ventilators between them. Entrance vestibule has enriched cornice and beamed ceiling. 2 pairs of segment headed half glazed doors with oval sidelights and segment headed stained glass overlights.
Listing NGR: SK8009253938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384882
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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