Apollo Theatre
APOLLO THEATRE, STOCKPORT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254683
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Apollo Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- APOLLO THEATRE, STOCKPORT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254683
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Apollo Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- APOLLO THEATRE, STOCKPORT ROAD
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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:
- APOLLO THEATRE, STOCKPORT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85364 96987
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8597 STOCKPORT ROAD, Ardwick 698-1/20/488 (East side) Apollo Theatre
II
Cinema, now concert hall. c.1930. Red brick in Flemish bond, with facade of white glazed terracotta (roof concealed). Large rectangular plan with rounded front corners, wing attached to rear left corner. Modernist style. Two unequal storeys plus attic. The wide slightly-raised rectangular centre has large rectangular tripartite openings on both floors (that at ground floor containing ranges of doors, and that above containing large recessed rectangular windows with small-pane glazing), flanked by vertical panels with Art Deco ornament. The wide convex corners have small oblong windows on 2 levels and above these 3 tiers of oblong slit windows between raised bands (all paired in the left corner and single in the right-hand corner). The slightly set back attic storey has a set-back centre (corresponding to the tripartite openings at ground and 1st floors) with banded pilasters, 1:3:1 little oblong windows and raised parapet, and banded wings with plain cornices and parapets interrupted by broad stepped and moulded pilasters (corresponding to the ornamented panels below), and slit windows at the corners. Return sides plainer. Interior: substantially unaltered auditorium with Art Deco decoration including horsehoe gallery with sweeping lines terminating in 4 overlapping tiers of "boxes", and between these and the proscenium a plunging V-shaped band.
Listing NGR: SJ8536496987
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457758
- 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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