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Latitude: 53.4694 / 53°28'9"N
Longitude: -2.2219 / 2°13'18"W
OS Eastings: 385364
OS Northings: 396987
OS Grid: SJ853969
Mapcode National: GBR DPM.K9
Mapcode Global: WHB9N.V233
Plus Code: 9C5VFQ9H+Q6
Entry Name: Apollo Theatre
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1254683
English Heritage Legacy ID: 457758
Also known as: The Apollo
Manchester Apollo
Carling Apollo Manchester
ABC Ardwick
Apollo Manchester
ID on this website: 101254683
Location: Ardwick, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M12
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Ardwick
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Longsight St Luke
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Music venue Cinema Art Deco
MANCHESTER
SJ8597 STOCKPORT ROAD, Ardwick
698-1/20/488 (East side)
Apollo Theatre
II
Cinema, now concert hall. c.1930. Red brick in Flemish bond,
with facade of white glazed terracotta (roof concealed). Large
rectangular plan with rounded front corners, wing attached to
rear left corner. Modernist style. Two unequal storeys plus
attic. The wide slightly-raised rectangular centre has large
rectangular tripartite openings on both floors (that at ground
floor containing ranges of doors, and that above containing
large recessed rectangular windows with small-pane glazing),
flanked by vertical panels with Art Deco ornament. The wide
convex corners have small oblong windows on 2 levels and above
these 3 tiers of oblong slit windows between raised bands (all
paired in the left corner and single in the right-hand
corner). The slightly set back attic storey has a set-back
centre (corresponding to the tripartite openings at ground and
1st floors) with banded pilasters, 1:3:1 little oblong windows
and raised parapet, and banded wings with plain cornices and
parapets interrupted by broad stepped and moulded pilasters
(corresponding to the ornamented panels below), and slit
windows at the corners. Return sides plainer. Interior:
substantially unaltered auditorium with Art Deco decoration
including horsehoe gallery with sweeping lines terminating in
4 overlapping tiers of "boxes", and between these and the
proscenium a plunging V-shaped band.
Listing NGR: SJ8536496987
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