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Façade of The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham, 1995

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Colour photograph showing the façade of The Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham. Historically important as the first purpose-built repertory theatre in Britain, its design was influenced by Munich Kunstlertheater of 1908. It is a neo-Georgian brick and stone façade in three and a half storeys and three bays, the outer bays narrow and rising to square attics, the centre bay window with giant Ionic pilasters supporting a full entablature, parapet and balustrade above. The ashlar-faced ground floor has a cantilever canopy extending the full width bearing the theatre’s name.

Image title
Façade of The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham, 1995
Depicted theatre
Old Rep
Depiction dateMay 1995
Creator
Mr Ian Grundy