Gladstone Theatre

• Theatre ID
  1886
• Built / Converted
  1891
• Dates of use
  • 1891: continuing
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Theatre (Amateur theatre)
• Address
  Greendale Road, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, CH62 4XB, England

Details

Situated in the Garden Village founded in 1888 by William Hesketh Lever to house his soap factory workers, the Gladstone Hall was first an assembly and recreation hall, with a platform stage for entertainments. Half-timbered over a red brick ground floor with tiled roofs and tile-hanging. Fine Art Nouveau panel over doors, commemorating opening of the room by W E Gladstone. The auditorium, slightly raked at the rear, has a curved barrel ceiling divided by series of arched, bolted trusses with tie rods. The proscenium stage seen today was introduced in the 1920s. This curves slightly at the top with simple gilded plaster ornaments above and on each side, the latter picked out in gold in an otherwise black-painted interior.

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• Other names
  Gladstone Hall
• Events
  • Owner/Management: Lever, continuing as Unilever
  • Owner/Management: Presently: Gladstone Theatre Trust, administrators
  • 1891 Use: continuing
  • 1891 Design/Construction:
    • William Owen - Architect
  • 1891 Design/Construction:
    • Bloomfield Bare (a local craftsman) - Consultant: Copper Art Nouveau Plaque Commemorating Opening Of The Hall By W E Gladstone (Prime Minister)
  • 1930 - 1939 Alteration: (?) addition of black and white front porch to house projection equipment
    • J Lomax-Simpson - Architect
• Capacities
  • Current: 500
• Listings
  • Grade Not listed