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© Mr Tim Nichols
IoE Number:
337030
Location:
ALHAMBRA THEATRE, MEALEY STREET
BRADFORD, BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Tim Nichols
Date Photographed:
08 August 2006
Date listed:
28 March 1974
Date of last amendment:
28 March 1974
Grade
II
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5111 PRINCES WAY BD1
Alhambra Theatre
SE 1632 46/152 28.3.74
II
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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.