Victoria Theatre

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 façade 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.