The Victoria Theatre
THE VICTORIA THEATRE, 2, FOUNTAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245344
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Victoria Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICTORIA THEATRE, 2, FOUNTAIN STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245344
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Victoria Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VICTORIA THEATRE, 2, FOUNTAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE VICTORIA THEATRE, 49-63, COMMERCIAL STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE VICTORIA THEATRE, BACK COMMERCIAL STREET
- Statutory Address 4:
- THE VICTORIA THEATRE, POWELL STREET
- Statutory Address 5:
- THE VICTORIA THEATRE, WARDS END
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 VICTORIA THEATRE, 2, FOUNTAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICTORIA THEATRE, 49-63, COMMERCIAL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICTORIA THEATRE, BACK COMMERCIAL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICTORIA THEATRE, POWELL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICTORIA THEATRE, WARDS END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 09228 24986
Details
SE 0924 NW COMMERCIAL STREET
(West side)
679/18/10265 Nos. 49-63 (Odd)
The Victoria Theatre
GV II
Includes: The Victoria Theatre, BACK COMMERCIAL STREET
Includes: The Victoria Theatre, No.2 FOUNTAIN STREET
Includes: The Victoria Theatre, POWELL STREET
Includes: The Victoria Theatre, WARD'S END
Marked on OS map as Victoria Hall. Concert hall, now theatre, and shops. Designed 1897 by W Clement Williams for the Halifax Concert Hall & Public Rooms Co Ltd. Foundation stone laid May 6 1899 by Sir George Fisher-Smith. Opened Feb 8 1901 with concert by the Halle Orchestra. Restored and converted 1962-66. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Baroque Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 8 x 5 bays with curved corner of 9 bays. Entrance in curve facing SE has slate-covered awning over 3 sets of glass doors; whole curve has Ionic pilasters defining bays, the left the shop front of the box office and the right a separate shop. Deep entablature supports first floor half columns, also Ionic, paired to central 3 bays with wide central window flanked by arched niches containing statues; other bays have single lights, all with transoms. Eaves cornice and roof balustrade with urn finials. One-bay, 3-stage towers flank this section and have pedimented windows in architraves; corniced blind top sections have corner pinnacles and high colonnaded lanterns with oeil-de-boeuf and scroll brackets to top frieze. Long front to Commercial Street has pilasters and entablature framing plate glass shop windows, pedimented sash windows above with richly carved lintel bands, and paired lights in pedimented end bays. Rich carving in pediments. Names of composers carved in impost band include Bishop, Wallace, Arne, Purcell, Balft, Bennett, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn. Roof conical over entrance, with cast-iron cresting surrounding tall arcaded lantern with ogee roof and spike finial; high domes over flanking towers; hipped roofs over ends of Commercial Street front linked by ridge with balustraded parapet. INTERIOR: shows much rich decoration, with especially ornate foyer and stairwell; Corinthian jewelled columns support imperial stairs which have cast-iron curved flowering stems for balustrades, with polished wood handrail; foyer walls panelled with pilasters and moulded over door decoration. Full width stair light deeply coved and filled with painted glass in intense colours, with swags and bows framing central `VR' motif. Bust of Queen Victoria on pedestal on stair landing. Auditorium entirely without columns to the cantilevered balconies which have bombe fronts; moulded proscenium arch, and coved panelled ceiling.
Listing NGR: SE0922824986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468741
- 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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