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Description: Theatre Royal, Former Royal Cinema

Address: The Theatre 1A Wards End Halifax Calderdale HX1 1DD

Grade: II

Group detail: Wards End

Full description:
Theatre, used as a bingo hall. 1904, converted c1930. Designed by Richard Horsfall. Ashlar with ashlar dressings. Baroque Revival style. West front, 7 windows. Rusticated ground floor, with 3 central round headed entrances with vermiculated rustication, flanked by single boarded windows, with beyond on each side a recessed door and a window to the right. Above the 3 window centre has an applied giant Ionic portico with a circular window in the pediment with flanking reclining figures. 5 windows with moulded surrounds and prominent keystones with alternating segmental and triangular pediments. Above 5 smaller windows with moulded surrounds and aprons. Above again the outer bays are topped with oval windows. Slightly projecting outer pavilions each have 2 small sashes on the first floor, with above a single sash in a moulded and pedimented surround. Above again an oval window with carved surround in an open segmental pediment. To the right a single bay over a segmental cart entrance with a single sash above in a moulded surround. Interior: was remodelled c1930, when the building was converted to a cinema, with standard Art Deco style decoration.