Grand Theatre
GRAND THEATRE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280615
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- GRAND THEATRE, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280615
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAND THEATRE, CHURCH STREET
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:
- GRAND THEATRE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackpool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 30749 36175
Details
SD 33 NW BLACKPOOL CHURCH STREET
2/5 Grand Theatre 26.1.1972 II*
Theatre, 1894, by Frank Matcham. Stone corner-entrance block of 3 storeys in flamboyant free Baroque, with drum and dome: 3-sided canted facade with round-arched entrances at ground floor; upper storeys have giant pilasters flanking windows which are paired at each side with bullseye above, Venetian in the centre; attic storey of scrolled gables with finials each side; stone drum with paired classical pilasters and domed roof of copper fish-scale tiles, surmounted by cupola, rises through the centre. Interior: auditorium of 3 balconies, cantilevered and double-curved; semicircular proscenium arch flanked by corbelled curved boxes under semicircular arches, richly crested with pediments and putti; oval ceiling. Fibrous plaster decoration in very ornate Baroque style, gilded and painted: fronts of boxes freely ornamented with cherubs, putti, swags, etc., and painted panels. Pendentives each side of proscenium arch have large oval panels with paintings of muses. Ceiling carries 2 heavily-moulded circular bosses supporting chandeliers, surrounded by 6 large panels painted with portrait medallions, nymphs, putti, garlands, etc.; all enclosed by coved cornice. Dress circle level has ironwork staircase head, and wood- panelled bar with stained glass windows. The whole building, ingeniously providing much accommodation on a small site, was completed in 7 months from December 1893 to July 1894.
Listing NGR: SD3074936175
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183661
- 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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