Façade of the Old Theatre, Chichester, 2003

• Image ID
  1255
• Image title
  Façade of the Old Theatre, Chichester, 2003
• 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. Despite being referred to as ‘The Old Theatre’, the building is no longer in use as a working theatre. The ground floor shop has a sign above a projected entrance reading ‘Age of Oak’ and ‘The Old Theatre’.
• Depicted theatre
  Theatre (Chichester)
• Depiction date
  —
• Copyright holder
  The Theatres Trust
• Creator
  Mr Mark Price