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Façade of The Prince of Wales, Cardiff

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Colour photograph showing the Wood Street façade of the former Prince of Wales theatre in Cardiff. Taken from across Wood Street, it shows a Gothic façade below a hipped roof slated in decorative ridge tiles with a stone sidewall along Great Western Lane to the right. It is a three-storey, ashlar stone façade with traceried windows and canopied niches. The outline of two large arches at first floor level form the centrepiece of the façade, with ornate decoration including a small circular window in between. A canopy is missing, with the ground floor entranceways being used as makeshift market stalls. The rubble-stone side elevation on Great Western Lane has a curious feature of a flat, church-like outline, picked out in ashlar, with a rose window towards the top. Four chimneys are visible at the top of the building.

Image title
Façade of The Prince of Wales, Cardiff
Depicted theatre
The Playhouse
Depiction dateEarliest 1987
Creator
Mr Ian Grundy