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Façade of The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham, 1995

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  • Image ID
    327
  • Image title
    Façade of The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham, 1995
  • Description
    Colour photograph showing the façade of The Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham. Historically important as the first purpose-built repertory theatre in Britain, its design was influenced by Munich Kunstlertheater of 1908. It is a neo-Georgian brick and stone façade in three and a half storeys and three bays, the outer bays narrow and rising to square attics, the centre bay window with giant Ionic pilasters supporting a full entablature, parapet and balustrade above. The ashlar-faced ground floor has a cantilever canopy extending the full width bearing the theatre’s name.
  • Depicted theatre
    Old Rep
  • Depiction date
  • Copyright holder
    Ian Grundy
  • Creator
    Mr Ian Grundy

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