Tamworth Arts Centre
TAMWORTH ARTS CENTRE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297348
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Tamworth Arts Centre
- Statutory Address:
- TAMWORTH ARTS CENTRE, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297348
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Tamworth Arts Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAMWORTH ARTS CENTRE, 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:
- TAMWORTH ARTS CENTRE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Tamworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 20859 04099
Details
TAMWORTH
SK2004SE CHURCH STREET 670-1/7/49 (North side) Tamworth Arts Centre
GV II
Shown on OS map as Baptist Church. Theatre, now arts centre. c1770, became malt house early C19, Baptist chapel, 1870, porch added 1908; became arts centre, 1970. Stuccoed brick with pebbledash and terracotta dressings; tile roof. Right-angle plan. 2 storeys. Pilasters and dentilled pedimented gable. Entrance in porch with terracotta top frieze and parapet, high plinth with squat paired Ionic half-columns with entasis, pulvinated frieze and cornice supporting round arched hood, C20 infill and doors; flanking plain C20 entrances with bull's eyes above. 1st floor has 3 round-headed C19 windows with angle pilasters, archivolts and keystones over small-paned glazing. Right return to Gungate has weathered plinth and cornice, C20 right end entrance, ground floor windows cutting plinth and round-headed 1st floor windows. Truncated louvre to ridge. INTERIOR: much altered, round-arched recess to end wall. Sarah Siddons is said to have performed in the theatre c1773. The building is an important landmark in Tamworth, and is of much local historical importance. (Tamworth Herald: Tamworth: 1921-).
Listing NGR: SK2086504094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386466
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tamworth Herald in Tamworth Herald, (1921)
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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