Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NW ST JAMES' STREET 646-1/20/574 (North West side) 01/06/95 Nos.14, 14A AND 16

GV II

Formerly known as: Old Malt Cross Music Hall ST JAMES' STREET. Music hall, now cafe, and adjoining shops. Dated 1877. By Edwin Hill of Nottingham for Charles Weldon. Restored 1982-84, and converted to cafe 1987. Brick, roughcast, with stucco dressings. Glazed barrel vault to the music hall, slate roofs to the remainder. EXTERIOR: moulded string course and eaves. 2 storeys plus attics, with galleried basement and rock-cut cellar. The shops face the street, with the music hall entrance to the left, and the music hall itself at right angles. Front range, 2 storeys plus attics; 4 window range of square wooden oriels, with tripartite sashes and cornices. Above them, 4 round-arched through-eaves dormers with finials and plain sashes. Wooden shopfront, full width, with moulded cornice and cast-iron columns with foliage capitals. Ground floor has wooden shopfronts with central double door and round-arched windows, 2 and 3 lights, with wooden mullions and transoms. To left, a wide opening containing a bow fronted doorcase c1935 with crest. INTERIOR: music hall retains major original features. Laminated wood barrel vault, glazed, with tie rods and plaster centre panels. Central light well through all floors, now boarded over at ground floor level. Gallery on 3 sides with cast-iron balustrade, on cast-iron columns with elaborate foliage capitals. Cantilever dogleg stair with cast-iron balustrade. Replica panelling, bar, stage, canopy and rostrum. This building is a largely intact example of a galleried music hall, and has an early example of a laminated timber roof. The first is thought to have been at King's Cross Station, 1851-52, by Lewis Cubitt. St Matthias' Church, Nottingham (qv) 1868, by TC Hine, also has one. (Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire: Featherstone HL: Nottingham: 1962-: 96-106; Curl JS: Victorian Architecture: 1990-: 210).

Listing NGR: SK5703639857

External Links

• Malt Cross at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q6744638

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