Victoria Theatre (Halifax)

• Theatre ID
  2269
• Built / Converted
  1901
• Dates of use
  • 1901: continuing
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Theatre
• Address
  Commercial Street & Wards End, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX1 1BU, England
• Website
  • http://www.victoriatheatre.co.uk

Details

Built as a concert hall called the Victoria Hall. The platform was set behind a permanent proscenium frame and was, from the beginning, intended for occasional theatrical use. Following the purchase of the hall by the Local Authority a fully equipped fly tower was built in 1964. It became the Civic Theatre, then the Victoria Theatre, though still used for concerts, etc. The fine auditorium has a European opera house look about it, with a semi-circular rear wall and two semi-circular balconies extending along the sides to the wide proscenium. Panelled ceiling with deep, enriched cove. Flat main floor. Spacious and elaborately decorated entrance foyer and main staircase with stained-glass dome. Good, free-classical, ashlar exterior on an important site at the junction of two roads. Imposing curved entrance façe with first floor windows divided by coupled columns and square flanking-towers surmounted by tall cupolas. At the time of writing a feasibility study was being conducted into the future potential of the building.

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• Other names
  Civic Theatre, Victoria Hall, New Victoria
• Events
  • 1901 Use: continuing
  • 1901 Design/Construction:
    • Clement Williams - Architect
  • 1964 Alteration: fly tower built
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1964 Owner/Management: Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
• Capacities
  • Current: 1505
• Listings
  • Grade II
• Stage type
  • Proscenium flat
• Dimensions
  • Proscenium width: 13.72m
  • Height to grid: 14.17m