Description

SJ 8497 NW
698-1/32/269

MANCHESTER
OXFORD STREET (East side)
The Palace Theatre

08/06/77

GV

II

Theatre. 1891, by Alfred Darbyshire and F.Bennett Smith;
altered 1913 by Bertie Crewe of London; re-fronted 1956.
Probably iron-framed, clad with brick and now faced with buff
glazed terracotta; slate roof. Rectangular plan. Three storeys
and basement. The facade, in debased modern classical style,
is of less interest than the INTERIOR: auditorium with two
tiers of segmentally curved balconies (the Circle and the
Grand Tier) with bowed ends, the fronts decorated with
continuous series of cartouches, anthemions, etc, and two
tiers of boxes carried by standing Atlantes, with tetrastyle
architraves of giant fluted Ionic columns; and a circular dome
in the ceiling with a hinged lighting panel. Circle promenade
with Ionic columns and semi-columns, and elaborate pedimented
architraves to the staircase doors.

Listing NGR: SJ8410697617

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Palace Theatre, Manchester at Wikipedia
• Palace Theatre, Manchester official website
• Wikidata Q3360751

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)