Little Theatre
LITTLE THEATRE, ST MARK'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218459
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Little Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE THEATRE, ST MARK'S ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14194/27
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218459
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Little Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE THEATRE, ST MARK'S ROAD
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:
- LITTLE THEATRE, ST MARK'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92551 63076
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 ST MARK'S ROAD 885-1/18/233 (East side) 10/01/75 Little Theatre (Formerly Listed as: ST MARK'S ROAD Church of St Mark)
II*
Parish church converted to theatre. 1856-57 to the designs of A Salvin; chancel restored 1890-91 by Fulford, Tait and Harvey. Snecked local grey limestone rubble with sandstone dressings; slate roofs. Mostly Early English in style with some Geometric Decorated details. PLAN: Cruciform plan. Nave; chancel; lean-to aisles; crossing tower; north and south transepts. Interior altered for present use, with ticket office in west end, aisles screened off, auditorium in nave. EXTERIOR: Symmetrical west front, the nave buttressed, with a 3-light Geometric Decorated west window with nook shafts. Moulded 2-centred west door with nook shafts and 2-leaf boarded door with elaborate hinges flanked by vessicas containing relief carvings of symbols of the evangelists. Aisles have set-back buttresses and 2-light plate-traceried west windows. Buttressed aisles have 2-light windows with trefoil-headed lights below a roundel; trefoil-headed one-light clerestory windows, arranged in pairs. Shallow gabled porch on north side towards west with a moulded doorway with nook shafts. North transept has tall, traceried one-light windows with a roundel in the gable; octagonal turret in east of transept with pyramidal stone roof. 5-light east window with trefoil-headed lights. Short crossing tower (unrestored after a collapse of 1856) with clasping pilasters. Pyramidal roof and 5-light window to east face. INTERIOR: Conversion has largely obscured the ecclesiastical fittings. Arch-braced roof to nave with very fine carved corbel heads. Alabaster reredos by Hems; 1891 Art Nouveau tiled sanctuary dado by Powell & Sons noted in Pevsner. Important set of C19 stained glass windows including work by Hardman, Kempe, Burlison and Grylls and Clayton and Bell. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.849).
Listing NGR: SX9255163076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390785
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 849
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 849
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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