Façade of the Lyceum, Crewe, 1997

• Image ID
  1378
• Image title
  Façade of the Lyceum, Crewe, 1997
• Description
  Colour photograph showing the façade of the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe. Taken from the road, it shows the additional wing (added in 1994) with its plain white façade in the foreground and the original red brick façade to the right. The newer wing is rendered with a channelled base and a simple cornice below the parapet. The main feature of the old façade is echoed in a full height, semi-circular arched, glazed bay containing the new main entrance under a sharply tilted, shaped glass canopy. Part of a sidewall, identical to its façade, can be seen on the far left of the photograph, with the corner also glazed from the first floor up. The name LYCEUM is repeated in bold seriffed letters in the set back parapet band. The original red brick façade’s main feature is 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 ground floor has been rendered with four doorways visible.
• Depicted theatre
  Lyceum (Crewe)
• Depiction date
  —
• Copyright holder
  The Theatres Trust
• Creator
  Sally McGrath