Gaiety (Newcastle upon Tyne)

• Theatre ID
  1594
• Built / Converted
  1838
• Dates of use
  • 1838 - 1949
• Current state
  Façade only
• Current use
  converted to other use (store room for retail store (2004: New Look))
• Address
  Nelson Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England

Details

Opened in 1838 as The Music Hall. The name did not then have the variety theatre overtones it later acquired. It was, in fact, a small concert hall at first floor level above a lecture room, but became a variety house, as the Gaiety Music Hall, in 1884. The auditorium was reconstructed at various times. It is now store room of a shop. All that remains of note is the fine, classical, ashlar façe in three bays, the three storeys linked by tall arched shallow recesses in the two left-hand bays, containing doors and windows. The right hand, wider, bay has a tall arched and pediment-hooded entrance door, above which is a tablet inscribed MUSIC HALL 1838 and an arched window with a bracketed and balustraded false balcony. Entablature and blocking to parapet.

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• Other names
  Music Hall, New Tyne Concert Hall, Gaiety, Grainger Theatre
• Events
  • 1838 - 1949 Use:
  • 1838 Design/Construction:
    • John Dobson - Architect
  • 1838 Owner/Management: Until when not known. Richard Grainger, owner
• Listings
  • Grade II
• Dimensions
  • Building dimensions: 1844 interior l: 80ft 4in w: 40ft 6in