The Theatres Trust

Façade of The Prince of Wales, Cardiff

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  • Image ID
    642
  • Image title
    Façade of The Prince of Wales, Cardiff
  • Description
    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.
  • Depicted theatre
    Prince Of Wales (Cardiff)
  • Depiction date
  • Copyright holder
    Ian Grundy
  • Creator
    Mr Ian Grundy

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