Queen's Theatre (Stoke-on-Trent)

• Theatre ID
  1219
• Built / Converted
  1911
• Dates of use
  • 1911: Until when not known.
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Theatre (concert venue and theatre)
• Address
  Wedgewood Place, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 4JH, England
• Website
  • The Queens Theatre Burslem

Details

The Queen's was built as a Town Hall and concert hall for the Potteries, but was superseded in its administrative role by the Kings Hall, Hanley. The front is faced in ashlar, the rear and sides in Accrington brick with stone dressings. The main façe is in three bays, the centre one recessed as a full height portico with Corinthian columns in antis and a full entablature and crowning balustrade, behind which is a heavy blind attic. The advanced flanking bays have elaborately framed oculi in their attics. Foyer with white marble staircases at either end. Flat-floored auditorium with barrel-vaulted ceiling and single, bombéronted balcony on three sides. Fibrous plaster enrichment on all surfaces. Rectangular proscenium with sharply contrasting plain treatment, presumably arising from comparatively recent interventions. The flat, shallow stage backs onto a street, and has limited flying height. The side balconies are six rows deep, the rear balcony ten rows. Sightlines from the side balconies are strained, but sightlines from the flat floor has been improved by use of a bleacher unit.

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• Other names
  Queens Hall
• Events
  • 1911 Use: Until when not known.
  • 1911 Design/Construction:
    • S B Russell & Edwin Cooper - Architect
  • 1928 Owner/Management: Stoke on Trent Corporation
• Capacities
  • Original: 1911: 1322 (680 ground; 542 balcony)
  • Later: 1972: 1280 1995: 1014
  • Current: 1014
• Listings
  • Grade II - 19.4.72; 15.3.93
• Stage type
  • Flat
• Dimensions
  • Building dimensions: 139ft x 100ft
  • Stage dimensions: Depth: 20 ft stage right; 22ft stage left Width: 61ft 6in
  • Proscenium width: 40ft x 16ft 5in high
  • Height to grid: 36ft 6in
  • Inside proscenium: 65ft
  • Orchestra pit: 28 (not permanent)
• Latest news
  Queen’s being refurbished to open Autumn 03 as a music venue - no news yet (FB Nov 03)