Description

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK8053NW APPLETON GATE
619-1/9/32 (South East side)
The Palace theatre

GV II

Theatre and 2 shops. Built 1920 for Miss Emily Blagg. Altered
mid C20, altered and restored 1988. Brick with stucco front
and stone and stucco dressings. Hipped and mansard slate and
artificial slate roofs. Single external rear wall stack. 2
storeys, 7x12 bays. Angled front has round towers at the
angles, topped with cupolas with onion domes, and coped
parapets. Main entrance front, to left, has dentillated
cornice. 3 glazing bar sashes with eared and shouldered
architraves, with swags between them. Under the windows, an
altered framed panel with scrolled ends with the theatre's
name. Below, full width entrance with dentillated cornice and
2 square piers. Steps with wrought iron handrail. Shops front,
to right, has 4 sashes with architraves and swags similar to
the entrance front, plus aprons. Below, 2 wooden shopfronts
with bracketed dentillated cornices, the right shopfront
double width with central door. On either side, 12 full height
recessed panels and a range of 11 windows, some of them blank.
North east side has, below, 4 doors and 6 windows. South east
end has plain round corner towers. Auditorium, narrowed and
refitted 1988, has an enriched bow fronted gallery on 3 sides,
with boxes. Enriched segmental proscenium arch. Plaster
ceiling has enriched dentillated cornice and cove-cornered
panels with ventilators between them. Entrance vestibule has
enriched cornice and beamed ceiling. 2 pairs of segment headed
half glazed doors with oval sidelights and segment headed
stained glass overlights.

Listing NGR: SK8009253938

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Palace Theatre, Newark at Wikipedia
• Palace Theatre, Newark official website
• Wikidata Q26510520

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