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Façade of the Lyceum, Crewe, 1994

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Colour photograph showing the façade of the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe. Taken from the upper storey of a building across the road, it shows the façade with a sidewall partly in shot to the right and the fly tower in the background. It is a red brick building with the main feature of the façade being a broad semi-circular arch filling a wide gable, with the tympanum carrying the date 1911 and the name of the theatre. Two large piers divide the façade into three bays with the wider central bay containing a smaller semicircular feature, this time in the form of a window, between two minor piers below. (The window is masked in part by a large poster advertising a production of ‘Puss in Boots’.) The ground floor has been rendered with four doorways visible and a sign above also bearing the name of the theatre. Some smaller posters advertising the same production can also be seen at street-level. To the left of the main building is a two-storey block, also in red brick, with the bottom right hand corner containing the main entrance to the theatre. It also has a sign bearing the name of the theatre, the second half of which is missing.

Image title
Façade of the Lyceum, Crewe, 1994
Depicted theatre
Lyceum
Depiction date-
Creator
Mr Ian Grundy