Façade of the Old Theatre, Chichester, 2004

• Image ID
  1252
• Image title
  Façade of the Old Theatre, Chichester, 2004
• Description
  Colour photograph showing the façade of the Old Theatre in Chichester. Taken from across the road, it shows a two-storey, red brick building on a corner site where South Street meets Theatre Lane. The façade has been marred by the insertion of a shop front across the full width of the ground floor but above this all is authentic. It has three bays, with the centre bay slightly advanced, all containing a blank square central panel. The wider centre bay also has sash windows, emphasised by a triangular pediment bearing the date 1791, and a brick cornice lines the width of the building with a parapet above concealing in part a pitched tiled roof. A sidewall is partly in shot to the right, with a doorway visible on the near corner. The building is no longer in use as a theatre but the ground floor shop with its projected entrance is being used as the box office for the nearby Chichester Festival Theatre. Above the entrance it reads ‘Chichester Festivities Box Office’ and ‘Chichester Festival Theatre Information’. A small white sign attached to the central square panel above reads ‘The Old Theatre’.
• Depicted theatre
  Theatre (Chichester)
• Depiction date
  —
• Copyright holder
  The Theatres Trust
• Creator
  Sally McGrath