Grand Theatre
GRAND THEATRE, LICHFIELD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282471
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- GRAND THEATRE, LICHFIELD STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282471
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAND THEATRE, LICHFIELD 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, LICHFIELD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 91684 98746
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198NE LICHFIELD STREET 895-1/12/261 (South side) 12/02/75 Grand Theatre
GV II*
Theatre. 1893-4. By C.J.Phipps. Brick with stone dressings and slate Mansard roof. Renaissance style. 3 storeys with attic; 9 bays, central 5 bays over ground floor recessed behind colonnade and flanked by Mansard-roofed end bays. Frieze and cornice to ground floor, 1st floor sill course, top entablature with brick frieze and stone-coped parapet with central balustrade; colonnade on antae with balustrade between. Piers to ground floor, with plate-glass windows replacing shop fronts to 2 bays at each end; windows to 1st and 2nd floors have architraves and casements, those to end bays have balustraded aprons and friezes and cornices to 1st floor, the cornices forming sills to 2nd floor windows with enriched iron grilles; centre has C20 glazed enclosure to 1st floor; a pedimented half-dormer to each end. 5 central entrances with C20 doors and glazed cast iron lean-to canopy. Some brick stacks. INTERIOR is original; of note is the auditorium with original plasterwork, curved balconies, 2 boxes with broken pediments and proscenium architrave with enriched panel over; coved ceiling, round centre panel covered with acoustic tiles. The original act drop with painted landscape is one of only 2 surviving examples. "This is among the most important of Phipps' remaining theatres and he regarded it as one of his most successful designs." (SAVE Committee: Curtains!, or A New Life for Old Theatres: London: 1982-: P.192-3).
Listing NGR: SO9168298750
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378456
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Curtains or A New Life for Old Theatres, (1982), 192-193
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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