Alhambra Theatre
ALHAMBRA THEATRE, PRINCES WAY BD1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314554
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Alhambra Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- ALHAMBRA THEATRE, PRINCES WAY BD1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314554
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Alhambra Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALHAMBRA THEATRE, PRINCES WAY BD1
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:
- ALHAMBRA THEATRE, PRINCES WAY BD1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 16092 32839
Details
1. 5111 PRINCES WAY BD1
Alhambra Theatre SE 1632 46/152 28.3.74
II
2. Built 1914 as a variety theatre for Francis Laidler (proprietor of the former Princes Theatre). Architects Chadwick and Watson of Leeds. Exterior faced in white faience, now painted white and blue with yellow domes. Narrow, sloping, triangular site with bowed corner entrance at apex with iron and glass canopy and rising above, a large domed turret with giant-paired Corinthian columns. Behind the building is stepped up culminating in a tall square towers, with small domes. The Mealey Street side elevation articulated in panels by pilasters and has entablature with urns on parapet. The Great Horton Road site, above corner, is of plain-red brick. The auditorium holds approximately 1,800 and is highly decorated with plasterwork. Two tiers, balcony and aisle. Moulded plasterwork to curved balcony fronts. Elliptically bowed balconies to boxes in round arched openings with giant fluted Corinthian columns, the arch containing wall painting and flanked-by-caryatids. Circular decorated auditorium ceiling with small rectangular dome to centre. Rectangular proscenium arch with painting above.
Listing NGR: SE1609232839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337030
- 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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