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The English architect [[Frank Matcham]] was responsible for the design and refurbishment of around 164 buildings, mostly theatres, throughout the United Kingdom.<ref name="DW178-183">Wilmore, pp. 178–183.</ref> He entered the architectural profession when he was 21, in 1874, and joined the practice of [[J. T. Robinson]], his future father-in-law, a few years later.<ref>"Growing Up On The English Riviera" by Gorel Garlick; Wilmore, p. 49.</ref> Matcham completed his first solo design, the Elephant and Castle theatre, in June 1879, having taken over Robinson’s practice upon his death.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 3.</ref> He founded his own practice, Matcham & Co., in 1883 which experienced much prosperity.<ref name="EARL92">"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, p. 92.</ref> His most successful period was between 1892 and 1912, during which there was an increased demand for variety theatres which resulted in the closure and dismantlement of many music halls, which had become outdated.<ref>Earl, pp. 28–29.</ref>
Although being more prolific in the provinces, Matcham is perhaps best known for his work in London under [[Moss Empires]], for whom he designed the [[Hippodrome, London|Hippodrome]] in 1900,<ref name="E&S117-118">Earl and Sell, pp. 117–118.</ref> [[Hackney Empire]] (1901),<ref name="E&S114">Earl and Sell, p. 114.</ref> [[London Coliseum]] (1903),<ref name="E&S121">Earl and Sell, p. 121.</ref> [[Shepherds Bush Empire]] (1903),<ref name="E&S141">Earl and Sell, p. 141.</ref> [[London Palladium]] (1910),<ref name="E&S122-123">Earl and Sell, pp. 122–123.</ref> and the [[Victoria Palace Theatre|Victoria Palace]] in 1911.<ref name="E&S145">Earl and Sell, p. 145.</ref> He seldom ever strayed from theatrical design but on occasion, renovated public houses and, in 1898, designed a number of buildings for the redevelopment of [[Briggate]] in [[Leeds]], including the Cross and County Arcades.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 18.</ref><ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256197 "Numbers 1-43 and Cross Arcade"], [[Historic England]], accessed 3 December 2017.</ref>
Matcham retired to [[Southend-on-sea]], [[Essex]], shortly before the First World War, and left his business, Matcham & Co., to his business partners, R.A. Briggs and F.G.M. Chancellor. Matcham died in 1920.<ref name="WDP10">"Mr Frank Matcham Dead", ''Western Daily Press'', 19 May 1920, p.10.</ref><ref name="TAJ682">''The Architect's Journal'', 26 May 1920, p. 682.</ref> Many of the 164 buildings that he either designed or rebuilt during his 40 year career, were demolished in the 1960s. There are currently around 52 known structures that survive, as of 2017.<ref name="DW178-183" /> According to the dramatist, [[Alan Bennett]], "there was scarcely a town in the United Kingdom that didn't boast one of Matcham's theatres and, though scores have been lost, enough remain to testify to the achievement of someone who was undoubtedly [the U.K's] greatest theatrical architect."<ref>A Preface to Frank Matcham & Co., by Alan Bennett; Wilmore, p. 4.</ref>
==Key==
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|+Explanation of the three listed building grades
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! Grade
! Criteria<ref name=engh>[http://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/listed-buildings/ "Listed Buildings: Categories of listed buildings"], [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
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!{{Grade I colour}}|I
| Buildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important
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!{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
| Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
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!{{Grade II colour}}|II
| Buildings of national importance and special interest
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==Buildings==
===England===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
! scope="col" | Date
! scope="col" | Theatre
! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph
! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes
! scope="col" | Grade
|-
! scope="row" | 1891
|[[Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham|Everyman Theatre]]
|
|Regent Street, [[Cheltenham]]
|Built as an Opera House, from which it took its original name, for the Cheltenham Theatre and Opera House Company. It was renamed the Everyman Theatre in 1960.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 122.</ref>
|{{Grade II colour}}|II
|-
! scope="row" | 1894<ref name=NHLE1280615>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1280615 Grand Theatre], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
|[[Grand Theatre, Blackpool|Grand Theatre]]
|[[File:Blackpool Grand Theatre.jpg|100px|alt=A theatre audltorium with gold, decorative walls and ceiling, and blue stage curtain.]]
|33 Church Street, [[Blackpool]], [[England]]
|Built at a cost of £20,000 for Thomas Sergenson for the intended use of a drama theatre. The exterior was built using brick with stone dressings and the plasterwork in the auditorium was carried out by the Plastic Decoration Company, who were based in London. The Grand was listed as Grade II in January 1972, and closed later that year. Because of its listing, permission to demolish it was refused the following year. The theatre remained closed until 1977 when it received a £200,000 renovation.<ref>Mercer Walker, pp. 125–126.</ref>
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name=NHLE1280615 />
|-
! scope="row" | 1894<ref name=NHLE1258906>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1258906 Lucky Seven Bingo Club], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
|[[Theatre Royal, Wakefield|Theatre Royal]]
|
|92-100, Westgate, [[Wakefield]]
|Built as a drama theatre to a cost of £13,000 on the former site of the {{circa}} 18th century Theatre Royal, the building was originally named the Opera House and is the smallest of Matcham's existing theatres. It became a cinema in 1955 and, since 1966, has been a Bingo club.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 124.</ref>
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name=NHLE1258906 />
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
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! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
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! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
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! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | 1899<ref name=NHLE1065384>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1065384 Richmond Theatre], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
|[[Richmond Theatre]]
|
|[[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames|Richmond upon Thames]]
|
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name=NHLE1065384 />
|-
! scope="row" | 1899<ref name=NHLE1205810>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205810 Tower Buildings], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
|[[Blackpool Tower#Tower Ballroom|Tower Ballroom]] and [[Blackpool Tower#Tower Circus|Tower Circus]]
|[[File:Blackpool Tower Ballroom.jpg|100px|alt=A dance hall seen from the interior looking towards the stage stone]]
|[[Blackpool]]
|Built for the Blackpool Tower Company as part of the seaside town's regeneration to attract tourism. The ballroom's interior was Matcham's only design for the Blackpool Tower complex. The rest of the designs were carried out by Maxwell & Tuke. The ballroom was seriously damaged in a fire in 1956, but was restored to its original design by Andrew Mazzei at a cost of £500,000 two years later.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 127.</ref>
|{{Grade I colour}}|I<ref name=NHLE1205810 />
|-
! scope="row" | 1900<ref name="HE1066287">[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1066287 Crown Public House the London Hippodrome Theatre], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 13 December 2017.</ref>
|[[London Hippodrome]]
|[[File:London Hippodrome (5143609688).jpg|100px|alt=Red sandstone frontage in the ornate and French Renaissance style and with a theatrically Baroque skyline. The wording "London Hippodrome" face to the front on the upper level, also in red sandstone]]
|Cranbourne Street, [[Westminster]], London
|The Hippodrome is contained within a block also comprising a public house, shops, and chambers, all built by Matcham. The theatre was built as a circus and then altered, in 1909, to a theatre of varieties.<ref name="HE1066287" /> The theatre survives but has been radically altered internally<ref name="BMW168">Mercer Walker, p. 168.</ref> and is now a casino and entertainment complex.<ref>[http://committees.westminster.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=3682 Variation of Casino Premises Licence - The Hippodrome Casino, 10-14 Cranbourn Street, WC2"], [[Westminster City Council]], accessed 13 December 2017.</ref>
|{{Grade II colour}}|II<ref name="HE1066287" />
|-
! scope="row" |1898–1900<ref name="NHLE1256197>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256197 Numbers 1-43 and Cross Arcade], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
|[[Briggate, Leeds#Arcades|County Arcade]], [[Leeds]]
|[[File:County Arcade.jpg|100px|alt=A wide shopping precinct, seen from within the interior, with glass roofs, detailed artwork to the cornices, and shop fronts to either side]]
|[[Leeds]]
|Together with a small number of public houses in London, the County Arcade is rare inasmuch that it is one of the only major, non-theatrical buildings to be designed by Matcham.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 18.</ref>
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name="NHLE1256197 />
|-
! scope="row" |1898–1900<ref name="NHLE1255862>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1255862 49 and 51, Vicar Lane; 2–24, King Edward Street; 115–120, Brigatte], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
|49 and 51, Vicar Lane; 2–24, King Edward Street; 115–120, Brigatte
|
|[[Leeds]]
|Shops and offices, built for the Leeds Estates Company as part of the County Arcade development.<ref name="NHLE1255862 />
|{{Grade II colour}}|II<ref name="NHLE1255862 />
|-
! scope="row" | 1901<ref name=NHLE1226960>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1226960 The Hackney Empire], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
|Hackney Empire
|[[File:Hackney empire 1.jpg|100px|alt=A red brick building with buff terracota dressings; Victorian Baroque in style. Two storeys with a three bay front. Large, illuminating wording of "Hackney Empire" on the front, in red lettering.]]
|[[London Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], London
|Variety theatre, built for [[Oswald Stoll]], who initially intended it to become his headquarters. Stoll, mid-way through construction, decided instead to locate his offices to central London, which resulted in a drastic reduction in budget for the Empire in order to raise extra finances for Stoll's eventual headquarters, the [[London Coliseum]].<ref>"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, pp. 102–103.</ref> Matcham rushed together a secondary design of the Empire's façade and presented it to Stoll on a piece of scrap tracing paper.<ref>"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, pp. 104–105.</ref> The exterior was a design that Matcham always loathed but was one, according to the historian Michael Sell, that demonstrated the architect's "seemingly endless powers of invention" and one that will "forever remain[ed] a landmark".<ref>"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, p. 105.</ref> The auditorium is noted by [[Historic England]] as being "one of the most exuberant Matcham interiors in Britain",<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1226960 "The Hackney Empire"], [[Historic England]], accessed 24 September 2017.</ref> while the theatrical author, Brian Walker, called the Empire's interior "the most perfect Matcham interior in Greater London.<ref>Walker, p. 52.</ref>
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name=NHLE1226960 />
|-
! scope="row" | 1903 (restoration only)
|[[Devonshire Park Theatre]]
|[[File:Devonshire Park Theatre.jpg|100px|alt=Light grey facade of a large building with "Devonshire Park Theatre" inscribed on the central face]]
|[[Eastbourne]], [[Sussex]]
|Built in 1884, by Henry Currey. The interior received a heavy restoration by Matcham in 1903.<ref name="NHLE1043618">[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043618 "Devonshire Park Theatre"], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
|{{Grade II colour}}|II<ref name="NHLE1043618" />
|-
! scope="row" |1903<ref name="NHLE1315842">[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1315842 "Royal Hall"], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
|Royal Hall
|[[File:Royal Hall, Harrogate.jpg|100px|Picture taken from the grand circle of a theatre auditorium with gold decorative features with a small Centre stage and red curtain]]
|[[Harrogate]]
|Concert hall, the design for which was won by the architect Robert Beale in 1899. Matcham was enlisted to assist with the project and became the senior architect. The interior is solely attributed to Matcham. The building was attached to the pre-existing Concert Room of 1835.<ref name="NHLE1315842" />
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name="NHLE1315842" />
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
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! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
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|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
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|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
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|Empire Palace
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|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
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|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
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:Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.
===Ireland===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
! scope="col" | Date
! scope="col" | Theatre
! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph
! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes
! scope="col" | Grade
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1895|December|23}}
|Grand Opera House
|
|Great Victoria Street, [[Belfast]]
|Warden Ltd instructed Matcham to design a theatre for drama and circus performers and was built in the oriental style on an open corner plot to create a three-dimensional build up from the low corners to the higher gabled centrepiece. The dome-shaped minarets are the only surviving oriental motifs on any of Matcham's interiors. The author Brian Mercer Walker describes the theatre as being "...by far the most notable surviving example of any theatre in the Untied Kingdom, decorated in [oriental] style."<ref>Mercer Walker, pp. 128–129.</ref> The building was threatened with demolition in the 1970s but was saved by a campaign, led by the Ulster Architectural Society. As a result, it became the first listed building in [[Northern Ireland]],<ref>[https://www.goh.co.uk/history-heritage "History and Heritage"], Grand Opera House official website, accessed 12 December 2017.</ref> although it's grading has never been made public.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 128.</ref>
|Listed
|-
|}
:Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.
===Scotland===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
! scope="col" | Date
! scope="col" | Theatre
! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph
! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes
! scope="col" | Grade
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
|}
:Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.
===Wales===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
! scope="col" | Date
! scope="col" | Theatre
! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph
! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes
! scope="col" | Grade
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! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|
|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
|-
|}
:Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.
====Theatres designed for Moss and Stoll====
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
! scope="col" | Opening date
! scope="col" | Theatre
! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" | Proprietor
! scope="col" | Seating capacity
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
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! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
|Empire Palace
|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|[[Edward Moss]]
|3,000
|The first of the Moss Empire theatres. Destroyed by fire in 1911 after an illusion by [[Sigmund Neuberger|The Great Lafayette]] failed and caught the auditorium curtain alight.<ref>[http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/film/lost-edinburgh-the-empire-theatre-1-3001370 "Lost Edinburgh: The Empire Theatre"], ''The Scotsman'', accessed 25 September 2017.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1895|Nov|4}}
|Empire
|Charles Street, [[Sheffield]]
|[[Edward Moss]]
|2,500
|Built in the [[Architecture of Italy|Italian style]], the local journals called the exterior "a phantasmagoric piece of architecture" and the interior as being "a dream of loveliness and beauty".<ref>Quoted in Mercer Walker, p. 165.</ref> Demolished in 1959.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 165.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1896|May|4}}
|Empire Palace
|Queen Street, [[Cardiff]]
|[[Oswald Stoll]]
|2,036
|A replacement of a former Empire theatre. Destroyed by fire on 31 October 1899. Rebuilt by Matcham with an increased seating capacity. The building survived until 1961 when it was demolished.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 157.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1897|Apr|5}}
|Empire
|Sauchiehall Street, [[Edinburgh]]
|[[Edward Moss]] and the Glasgow Empire Co.
|2,500
|Built upon land once occupied by the Gaiety theatre, which was later renamed as the Glasgow Empire. Rebuilt by Matcham and became, in the 1930s, the second largest variety theatre in Britain.<ref>[http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collections/sta/Collections/empire/index.html "Empire Theatre, Glasgow"], Scottish Theatre Archive, University of Scotland, accessed 25 September 2017.</ref> Survived until 1963 when it was demolished.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 158.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1897|Dec|6}}
|Palace
|Analby Road, [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]]
|[[Edward Moss]] and the Liverpool, Leeds and Hull Empire Palaces Co.
|1,800
|The building adjoined a similar entertainment venue called Hengler's Circus. The Palace doubled as an amphitheatre. Enlarged in 1928 and closed 11 years later. Reopened in 1951 and renamed the Continental Palace in 1957. Closed for the final time in July 1965 and demolished the following year.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 160.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1898|Feb|28}}
|Empire Palace
|Sherwood Street, [[Nottingham]]
|[[Edward Moss]]
|2,500
|Designed in the [[Chinese architecture|Oriental style]] with Indian art in the auditorium.<ref>''The Builder'', 12 March 1898, p. 12.</ref> The theatre closed in June 1958 and was demolished 11 years later.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 164.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1898|Aug|29}}
|Empire Palace
|[[Briggate, Leeds|Briggate]], [[Leeds]]
|[[Edward Moss]] and the Liverpool, Leeds and Hull Empire Palaces Co.
|Unknown
|Completed in the [[Architecture of the Netherlands|Flemish style]],<ref name="BMW161">Mercer Walker, p. 161.</ref> the ''Leeds Mercury'' called the theatre the "handsomest of its kind in the country". They opined that Matcham's plans "[are] a triumph of artistic skill [with] the moulded work being very fine indeed".<ref>''Leeds Mercury'', 30 August 1898, p. 36.</ref> The theatre closed on 25 February 1961 and was demolished the following year.<ref name="BMW161" />
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1899|Jul|3}}
|Empire Palace
|Charles Street, [[Newport, Wales|Newport]]
|[[Oswald Stoll]] and the Cardiff, Newport and Swansea Co.
|Unknown
|Built at a cost of £20,000 on the site of a former theatre. The walls were decorated using Japanese wall paper and the ceilings covered in [[Lincrusta]]. Long since demolished.<ref name="BMW163">Mercer Walker, p. 163.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1899|Jul|31}}
|New Cross Empire
|New Cross Road, [[New Cross]], London
|[[Edward Moss]] and the London District Empire Palaces Ltd.
|3,000
|''The Builder'' described the interior as being in the [[17th-century French art|Louis XIV style]].<ref>''The Builder'', 19 August 1899, p. 4.</ref> The building was demolished in the late-1950s in favour of the construction of a filling station.<ref><ref>Mercer Walker, p. 170.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1901|Jun|17}}
|Palace Theatre of Varieties
|Belgrave Gate, Leicester
|[[Oswald Stoll]] and Moss Empires
|2,750
|Designed in [[Moresque|Moresque style]]. The theatre featured a semi-circular glass and iron domed roof and internally, had rockeries, fountains and dripping wells. The building was demolished in 1960.<ref name="BMW161">Mercer Walker, p. 161.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1903|Aug|17}}
|[[Shepherd's Bush Empire]]
|Shepherd's Bush, [[Hammersmith]], London
|Oswald Stoll
|1,638
|Another of London's last surviving Matcham theatres, later a television studio.<ref name="BMW172">Mercer Walker, p.172.</ref> It features an Arts and Crafts influence which, according to [[Historic England]], was unusual for Matcham. <ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358593 "BBC Television Theatre"], Historic England, accessed 26 September 2017.</ref> Largely altered from the original design.<ref name="BMW172" />
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1903|Dec|4}}
|Empire Palace,
|Newgate Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
|Moss Empires
|2,200
|Matcham virtually rebuilt the Empire from an existing theatre that first opened in 1890. The theatre remained until its demolition in 1963 to make way for a central redevelopment.<ref name="BMW163" />
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1904|Jul|18}}
|Ardwick Empire
|Hyde Road, [[Manchester]]
|Oswald Stoll and Moss Empires
|3,000
|Decorations by Felix De Jong; built as a variety theatre. The venue became a cinema in 1930 and five years later, was renamed as the New Manchester Hippodrome. Demolished in 1964.<ref name="BMW161" />
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1904|Dec|24}}
|[[London Coliseum]]
|St. Martin's Lane, [[Westminster]], London
|Oswald Stoll
|2,939
|Widely regarded as Matcham's masterpiece by architectural critics, the Coliseum was built as Oswald Stoll's headquarters. The Coliseum opened in 1904 and it was Stoll's aim to provide family entertainment in a lavish setting.<ref name ="STAGE1" /> The facade was designed in the free Italian Renaissance style and the auditorium features a [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque theme]]. The seating capacity exceeds those of the nearby [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]] and [[Royal Opera House]]. The stage featured a revolutionary, £70,000 revolving stage which was the first of its kind in Great Briatain. This allowed for imaginative ideas, including the theatre's extravagant display celebrating [[Epsom Derby|Derby Day]], with guesting jockeys riding real horses, galloping against the moving revolve;<ref name ="STAGE1" /> this was removed in 1976. The theatre received a £4 million refurbishment in 2004. Now home to the [[English National Opera]].<ref>Earl and Sell, pp. 121–122.</ref> The theatrical historian Brian Mercer Walker called it the "fruit of close collaboration and understanding between client and architect." He further noted: "Matcham's frequently noticed skill in planning is here matched by a different kind of wizardry. Few of his contemporaries could have made so memorable an architectural statement on so short a frontage in such an unpretentious thoroughfare. It is much more impressive than, for example, the neighbouring Garrick Theatre of 1889..."<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 57.</ref> According to the theatrical magazine ''[[The Stage]]'', Matcham's design provided "a handsome marble staircase, the landmark tower topped by a revolving globe and an impressive range of amenities, including spacious tea-rooms on each floor, lifts to the theatre's upper levels, lavishly decorated retiring rooms, a roof-garden with a glass-domed roof and an information bureau from which messages and telegrams could be sent and where doctors might register their whereabouts in case of emergencies."<ref name ="STAGE1" />
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1904|Dec|26}}
|Hippodrome
|Oxford Street, [[Manchester]]
|[[Oswald Stoll]] and Moss Empires
|Unknown
|Built as a hippodrome variety theatre and opened on 26 December 1904 with a variety show and a water spectacle from the London Hippodrome called "Tally Ho!". It closed on 2 March 1935 and was demolished soon after. Rebuilt 7 months laterand named The Gaumont Theatre.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 162.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1905|Oct|14}}
|Coliseum
|Eglington Street, Glasgow
|Moss Empires
|2,700
|The Coliseum started life as a variety theatre and featured two large balconies, painted panels on the ceiling, and a marble-framed It closed and reopened as a cinema in the early 1920s and started showing films full-time in 1925. It became the first venue in Glasgow to show a [[Sound|talking picture]] in January 1929. It closed as a cinema in 1980 and was used as a bingo hall from the late 80s until 2003. The Coliseum caught fire on 25 May 2009.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8066723.stm "Fire engulfs derelict bingo hall"], BBC News, 25 May 2009, accessed 29 September 2017.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1910|Sep|5}}
|Finsbury Park Empire
|St Thomas's Road and Prah Road, [[Finsbury Park]], London
|Moss Empires
|2,000
|Built as a variety theatre at a cost of £45,000, it closed in 1960 and was demolished five years later.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 167.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1911|Oct|4}}
|New Middlesex
|Drury Lane, Holborn
|[[Oswald Stoll]], J.L. Grayson, and the Middlesex Theatre of Varieties Ltd.
|3,038
|Built as a variety theatre on the site of the former Middlesex Music Hall, previously the Old Mogul Saloon, the New Middlesex was renamed in 1919 to the Winter Garden theatre. It was demolished in 1965. The site is now occupied by the New London Theatre.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 171.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1912|Sep|21}}
|Wood Green Empire
|High Road, Wood Green, London
|[[Oswald Stoll]]
|1,840
|Matcham's last London theatre. It was leased by the BBC during the 1950s and 60s who televised variety shows there. It was closed and partially demolished in 1970. The frontage, including the entrance block, still remain.<ref>Earl and Sell, p. 149.</ref>
|}
:Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's theatres, except as otherwise noted, is Brian Mercer Walker, ''Frank Matcham: Theatre Architect'', pp. 154–173.
===Theatres no longer since Brian Mercer Walker publication - No longer or mostly demolished===
*1889 - Theatre Royal, St Helens - Mercer Walker, p. 120
*1892 - Empire Palace, Edinburgh - Mercer Walker, p. 179
==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
==Sources==
{{refbegin|25em}}
*{{cite book | last= Baker | first=Richard Anthony | year=2014| title=British Music Hall: An Illustrated History| location=South Yorkshire| publisher=Penn & Sword History| isbn=978-1-78383-118-0}}
*{{cite book | last=Earl | first=John | year=2008| title=British Theatres and Music Halls| location=South Yorkshire| publisher=Shire Publications| isbn=978-0-74780-627-1}}
*{{cite book | last1 = Earl | first1 = John | last2 = Sell | first2 = Michael | year = 2000 | title = The Theatres Trust Guide to British Theatres 1750-1950 | publisher = A. & C. Black | location =London | isbn = 978-0-71365-688-6}}
*{{cite book | last=Kilburn | first=Mike | year=2002| title=London's Theatres| location=London| publisher=New Holland | isbn=978-1-84330-069-4}}
*{{cite book | last= Mercer Walker | first=Brian | year=1980| title=Frank Matcham: Theatre Architect| location=Belfast| publisher=Blackstaff Press| isbn=978-0-95341-271-6}}
*{{cite book | last= Wilmore | first=David | year=2008| title=Frank Matcham & Co| location=South Yorkshire| publisher=Theatreshire Books| isbn=978-0-85640-231-9}}' |
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+[[File:Frank-Matcham-Plaque (14455846627).jpg|thumb|right|Plaque at the [[London Coliseum]], unveiled by the Frank Matcham Society in 2014]]
+The English architect [[Frank Matcham]] was responsible for the design and refurbishment of around 164 buildings, mostly theatres, throughout the United Kingdom.<ref name="DW178-183">Wilmore, pp. 178–183.</ref> He entered the architectural profession when he was 21, in 1874, and joined the practice of [[J. T. Robinson]], his future father-in-law, a few years later.<ref>"Growing Up On The English Riviera" by Gorel Garlick; Wilmore, p. 49.</ref> Matcham completed his first solo design, the Elephant and Castle theatre, in June 1879, having taken over Robinson’s practice upon his death.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 3.</ref> He founded his own practice, Matcham & Co., in 1883 which experienced much prosperity.<ref name="EARL92">"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, p. 92.</ref> His most successful period was between 1892 and 1912, during which there was an increased demand for variety theatres which resulted in the closure and dismantlement of many music halls, which had become outdated.<ref>Earl, pp. 28–29.</ref>
+Although being more prolific in the provinces, Matcham is perhaps best known for his work in London under [[Moss Empires]], for whom he designed the [[Hippodrome, London|Hippodrome]] in 1900,<ref name="E&S117-118">Earl and Sell, pp. 117–118.</ref> [[Hackney Empire]] (1901),<ref name="E&S114">Earl and Sell, p. 114.</ref> [[London Coliseum]] (1903),<ref name="E&S121">Earl and Sell, p. 121.</ref> [[Shepherds Bush Empire]] (1903),<ref name="E&S141">Earl and Sell, p. 141.</ref> [[London Palladium]] (1910),<ref name="E&S122-123">Earl and Sell, pp. 122–123.</ref> and the [[Victoria Palace Theatre|Victoria Palace]] in 1911.<ref name="E&S145">Earl and Sell, p. 145.</ref> He seldom ever strayed from theatrical design but on occasion, renovated public houses and, in 1898, designed a number of buildings for the redevelopment of [[Briggate]] in [[Leeds]], including the Cross and County Arcades.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 18.</ref><ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256197 "Numbers 1-43 and Cross Arcade"], [[Historic England]], accessed 3 December 2017.</ref>
+
+Matcham retired to [[Southend-on-sea]], [[Essex]], shortly before the First World War, and left his business, Matcham & Co., to his business partners, R.A. Briggs and F.G.M. Chancellor. Matcham died in 1920.<ref name="WDP10">"Mr Frank Matcham Dead", ''Western Daily Press'', 19 May 1920, p.10.</ref><ref name="TAJ682">''The Architect's Journal'', 26 May 1920, p. 682.</ref> Many of the 164 buildings that he either designed or rebuilt during his 40 year career, were demolished in the 1960s. There are currently around 52 known structures that survive, as of 2017.<ref name="DW178-183" /> According to the dramatist, [[Alan Bennett]], "there was scarcely a town in the United Kingdom that didn't boast one of Matcham's theatres and, though scores have been lost, enough remain to testify to the achievement of someone who was undoubtedly [the U.K's] greatest theatrical architect."<ref>A Preface to Frank Matcham & Co., by Alan Bennett; Wilmore, p. 4.</ref>
+
+==Key==
+{| class="wikitable" border="1"
+|+Explanation of the three listed building grades
+|-
+! Grade
+! Criteria<ref name=engh>[http://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/listed-buildings/ "Listed Buildings: Categories of listed buildings"], [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
+|-
+!{{Grade I colour}}|I
+| Buildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important
+|-
+!{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+| Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
+|-
+!{{Grade II colour}}|II
+| Buildings of national importance and special interest
+|-
+|}
+
+==Buildings==
+===England===
+{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
+! scope="col" | Date
+! scope="col" | Theatre
+! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph
+! scope="col" | Location
+! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes
+! scope="col" | Grade
+|-
+! scope="row" | 1891
+|[[Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham|Everyman Theatre]]
+|
+|Regent Street, [[Cheltenham]]
+|Built as an Opera House, from which it took its original name, for the Cheltenham Theatre and Opera House Company. It was renamed the Everyman Theatre in 1960.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 122.</ref>
+|{{Grade II colour}}|II
+|-
+! scope="row" | 1894<ref name=NHLE1280615>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1280615 Grand Theatre], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
+|[[Grand Theatre, Blackpool|Grand Theatre]]
+|[[File:Blackpool Grand Theatre.jpg|100px|alt=A theatre audltorium with gold, decorative walls and ceiling, and blue stage curtain.]]
+|33 Church Street, [[Blackpool]], [[England]]
+|Built at a cost of £20,000 for Thomas Sergenson for the intended use of a drama theatre. The exterior was built using brick with stone dressings and the plasterwork in the auditorium was carried out by the Plastic Decoration Company, who were based in London. The Grand was listed as Grade II in January 1972, and closed later that year. Because of its listing, permission to demolish it was refused the following year. The theatre remained closed until 1977 when it received a £200,000 renovation.<ref>Mercer Walker, pp. 125–126.</ref>
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name=NHLE1280615 />
+|-
+! scope="row" | 1894<ref name=NHLE1258906>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1258906 Lucky Seven Bingo Club], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
+|[[Theatre Royal, Wakefield|Theatre Royal]]
+|
+|92-100, Westgate, [[Wakefield]]
+|Built as a drama theatre to a cost of £13,000 on the former site of the {{circa}} 18th century Theatre Royal, the building was originally named the Opera House and is the smallest of Matcham's existing theatres. It became a cinema in 1955 and, since 1966, has been a Bingo club.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 124.</ref>
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name=NHLE1258906 />
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | 1899<ref name=NHLE1065384>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1065384 Richmond Theatre], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
+|[[Richmond Theatre]]
+|
+|[[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames|Richmond upon Thames]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name=NHLE1065384 />
+|-
+! scope="row" | 1899<ref name=NHLE1205810>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205810 Tower Buildings], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
+|[[Blackpool Tower#Tower Ballroom|Tower Ballroom]] and [[Blackpool Tower#Tower Circus|Tower Circus]]
+|[[File:Blackpool Tower Ballroom.jpg|100px|alt=A dance hall seen from the interior looking towards the stage stone]]
+|[[Blackpool]]
+|Built for the Blackpool Tower Company as part of the seaside town's regeneration to attract tourism. The ballroom's interior was Matcham's only design for the Blackpool Tower complex. The rest of the designs were carried out by Maxwell & Tuke. The ballroom was seriously damaged in a fire in 1956, but was restored to its original design by Andrew Mazzei at a cost of £500,000 two years later.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 127.</ref>
+|{{Grade I colour}}|I<ref name=NHLE1205810 />
+|-
+! scope="row" | 1900<ref name="HE1066287">[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1066287 Crown Public House the London Hippodrome Theatre], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 13 December 2017.</ref>
+|[[London Hippodrome]]
+|[[File:London Hippodrome (5143609688).jpg|100px|alt=Red sandstone frontage in the ornate and French Renaissance style and with a theatrically Baroque skyline. The wording "London Hippodrome" face to the front on the upper level, also in red sandstone]]
+|Cranbourne Street, [[Westminster]], London
+|The Hippodrome is contained within a block also comprising a public house, shops, and chambers, all built by Matcham. The theatre was built as a circus and then altered, in 1909, to a theatre of varieties.<ref name="HE1066287" /> The theatre survives but has been radically altered internally<ref name="BMW168">Mercer Walker, p. 168.</ref> and is now a casino and entertainment complex.<ref>[http://committees.westminster.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=3682 Variation of Casino Premises Licence - The Hippodrome Casino, 10-14 Cranbourn Street, WC2"], [[Westminster City Council]], accessed 13 December 2017.</ref>
+|{{Grade II colour}}|II<ref name="HE1066287" />
+|-
+! scope="row" |1898–1900<ref name="NHLE1256197>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256197 Numbers 1-43 and Cross Arcade], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
+|[[Briggate, Leeds#Arcades|County Arcade]], [[Leeds]]
+|[[File:County Arcade.jpg|100px|alt=A wide shopping precinct, seen from within the interior, with glass roofs, detailed artwork to the cornices, and shop fronts to either side]]
+|[[Leeds]]
+|Together with a small number of public houses in London, the County Arcade is rare inasmuch that it is one of the only major, non-theatrical buildings to be designed by Matcham.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 18.</ref>
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name="NHLE1256197 />
+|-
+! scope="row" |1898–1900<ref name="NHLE1255862>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1255862 49 and 51, Vicar Lane; 2–24, King Edward Street; 115–120, Brigatte], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
+|49 and 51, Vicar Lane; 2–24, King Edward Street; 115–120, Brigatte
+|
+|[[Leeds]]
+|Shops and offices, built for the Leeds Estates Company as part of the County Arcade development.<ref name="NHLE1255862 />
+|{{Grade II colour}}|II<ref name="NHLE1255862 />
+|-
+! scope="row" | 1901<ref name=NHLE1226960>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1226960 The Hackney Empire], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
+|Hackney Empire
+|[[File:Hackney empire 1.jpg|100px|alt=A red brick building with buff terracota dressings; Victorian Baroque in style. Two storeys with a three bay front. Large, illuminating wording of "Hackney Empire" on the front, in red lettering.]]
+|[[London Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], London
+|Variety theatre, built for [[Oswald Stoll]], who initially intended it to become his headquarters. Stoll, mid-way through construction, decided instead to locate his offices to central London, which resulted in a drastic reduction in budget for the Empire in order to raise extra finances for Stoll's eventual headquarters, the [[London Coliseum]].<ref>"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, pp. 102–103.</ref> Matcham rushed together a secondary design of the Empire's façade and presented it to Stoll on a piece of scrap tracing paper.<ref>"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, pp. 104–105.</ref> The exterior was a design that Matcham always loathed but was one, according to the historian Michael Sell, that demonstrated the architect's "seemingly endless powers of invention" and one that will "forever remain[ed] a landmark".<ref>"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, p. 105.</ref> The auditorium is noted by [[Historic England]] as being "one of the most exuberant Matcham interiors in Britain",<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1226960 "The Hackney Empire"], [[Historic England]], accessed 24 September 2017.</ref> while the theatrical author, Brian Walker, called the Empire's interior "the most perfect Matcham interior in Greater London.<ref>Walker, p. 52.</ref>
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name=NHLE1226960 />
+|-
+! scope="row" | 1903 (restoration only)
+|[[Devonshire Park Theatre]]
+|[[File:Devonshire Park Theatre.jpg|100px|alt=Light grey facade of a large building with "Devonshire Park Theatre" inscribed on the central face]]
+|[[Eastbourne]], [[Sussex]]
+|Built in 1884, by Henry Currey. The interior received a heavy restoration by Matcham in 1903.<ref name="NHLE1043618">[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043618 "Devonshire Park Theatre"], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
+|{{Grade II colour}}|II<ref name="NHLE1043618" />
+|-
+! scope="row" |1903<ref name="NHLE1315842">[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1315842 "Royal Hall"], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>
+|Royal Hall
+|[[File:Royal Hall, Harrogate.jpg|100px|Picture taken from the grand circle of a theatre auditorium with gold decorative features with a small Centre stage and red curtain]]
+|[[Harrogate]]
+|Concert hall, the design for which was won by the architect Robert Beale in 1899. Matcham was enlisted to assist with the project and became the senior architect. The interior is solely attributed to Matcham. The building was attached to the pre-existing Concert Room of 1835.<ref name="NHLE1315842" />
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name="NHLE1315842" />
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+|}
+:Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.
+
+===Ireland===
+{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
+! scope="col" | Date
+! scope="col" | Theatre
+! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph
+! scope="col" | Location
+! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes
+! scope="col" | Grade
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1895|December|23}}
+|Grand Opera House
+|
+|Great Victoria Street, [[Belfast]]
+|Warden Ltd instructed Matcham to design a theatre for drama and circus performers and was built in the oriental style on an open corner plot to create a three-dimensional build up from the low corners to the higher gabled centrepiece. The dome-shaped minarets are the only surviving oriental motifs on any of Matcham's interiors. The author Brian Mercer Walker describes the theatre as being "...by far the most notable surviving example of any theatre in the Untied Kingdom, decorated in [oriental] style."<ref>Mercer Walker, pp. 128–129.</ref> The building was threatened with demolition in the 1970s but was saved by a campaign, led by the Ulster Architectural Society. As a result, it became the first listed building in [[Northern Ireland]],<ref>[https://www.goh.co.uk/history-heritage "History and Heritage"], Grand Opera House official website, accessed 12 December 2017.</ref> although it's grading has never been made public.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 128.</ref>
+|Listed
+|-
+|}
+:Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.
+
+===Scotland===
+{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
+! scope="col" | Date
+! scope="col" | Theatre
+! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph
+! scope="col" | Location
+! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes
+! scope="col" | Grade
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+|}
+:Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.
+
+===Wales===
+{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
+! scope="col" | Date
+! scope="col" | Theatre
+! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph
+! scope="col" | Location
+! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes
+! scope="col" | Grade
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|
+|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*
+|-
+|}
+:Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.
+
+====Theatres designed for Moss and Stoll====
+{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
+! scope="col" | Opening date
+! scope="col" | Theatre
+! scope="col" | Location
+! scope="col" | Proprietor
+! scope="col" | Seating capacity
+! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|[[Edward Moss]]
+|3,000
+|The first of the Moss Empire theatres. Destroyed by fire in 1911 after an illusion by [[Sigmund Neuberger|The Great Lafayette]] failed and caught the auditorium curtain alight.<ref>[http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/film/lost-edinburgh-the-empire-theatre-1-3001370 "Lost Edinburgh: The Empire Theatre"], ''The Scotsman'', accessed 25 September 2017.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1895|Nov|4}}
+|Empire
+|Charles Street, [[Sheffield]]
+|[[Edward Moss]]
+|2,500
+|Built in the [[Architecture of Italy|Italian style]], the local journals called the exterior "a phantasmagoric piece of architecture" and the interior as being "a dream of loveliness and beauty".<ref>Quoted in Mercer Walker, p. 165.</ref> Demolished in 1959.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 165.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1896|May|4}}
+|Empire Palace
+|Queen Street, [[Cardiff]]
+|[[Oswald Stoll]]
+|2,036
+|A replacement of a former Empire theatre. Destroyed by fire on 31 October 1899. Rebuilt by Matcham with an increased seating capacity. The building survived until 1961 when it was demolished.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 157.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1897|Apr|5}}
+|Empire
+|Sauchiehall Street, [[Edinburgh]]
+|[[Edward Moss]] and the Glasgow Empire Co.
+|2,500
+|Built upon land once occupied by the Gaiety theatre, which was later renamed as the Glasgow Empire. Rebuilt by Matcham and became, in the 1930s, the second largest variety theatre in Britain.<ref>[http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collections/sta/Collections/empire/index.html "Empire Theatre, Glasgow"], Scottish Theatre Archive, University of Scotland, accessed 25 September 2017.</ref> Survived until 1963 when it was demolished.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 158.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1897|Dec|6}}
+|Palace
+|Analby Road, [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]]
+|[[Edward Moss]] and the Liverpool, Leeds and Hull Empire Palaces Co.
+|1,800
+|The building adjoined a similar entertainment venue called Hengler's Circus. The Palace doubled as an amphitheatre. Enlarged in 1928 and closed 11 years later. Reopened in 1951 and renamed the Continental Palace in 1957. Closed for the final time in July 1965 and demolished the following year.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 160.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1898|Feb|28}}
+|Empire Palace
+|Sherwood Street, [[Nottingham]]
+|[[Edward Moss]]
+|2,500
+|Designed in the [[Chinese architecture|Oriental style]] with Indian art in the auditorium.<ref>''The Builder'', 12 March 1898, p. 12.</ref> The theatre closed in June 1958 and was demolished 11 years later.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 164.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1898|Aug|29}}
+|Empire Palace
+|[[Briggate, Leeds|Briggate]], [[Leeds]]
+|[[Edward Moss]] and the Liverpool, Leeds and Hull Empire Palaces Co.
+|Unknown
+|Completed in the [[Architecture of the Netherlands|Flemish style]],<ref name="BMW161">Mercer Walker, p. 161.</ref> the ''Leeds Mercury'' called the theatre the "handsomest of its kind in the country". They opined that Matcham's plans "[are] a triumph of artistic skill [with] the moulded work being very fine indeed".<ref>''Leeds Mercury'', 30 August 1898, p. 36.</ref> The theatre closed on 25 February 1961 and was demolished the following year.<ref name="BMW161" />
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1899|Jul|3}}
+|Empire Palace
+|Charles Street, [[Newport, Wales|Newport]]
+|[[Oswald Stoll]] and the Cardiff, Newport and Swansea Co.
+|Unknown
+|Built at a cost of £20,000 on the site of a former theatre. The walls were decorated using Japanese wall paper and the ceilings covered in [[Lincrusta]]. Long since demolished.<ref name="BMW163">Mercer Walker, p. 163.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1899|Jul|31}}
+|New Cross Empire
+|New Cross Road, [[New Cross]], London
+|[[Edward Moss]] and the London District Empire Palaces Ltd.
+|3,000
+|''The Builder'' described the interior as being in the [[17th-century French art|Louis XIV style]].<ref>''The Builder'', 19 August 1899, p. 4.</ref> The building was demolished in the late-1950s in favour of the construction of a filling station.<ref><ref>Mercer Walker, p. 170.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1901|Jun|17}}
+|Palace Theatre of Varieties
+|Belgrave Gate, Leicester
+|[[Oswald Stoll]] and Moss Empires
+|2,750
+|Designed in [[Moresque|Moresque style]]. The theatre featured a semi-circular glass and iron domed roof and internally, had rockeries, fountains and dripping wells. The building was demolished in 1960.<ref name="BMW161">Mercer Walker, p. 161.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1903|Aug|17}}
+|[[Shepherd's Bush Empire]]
+|Shepherd's Bush, [[Hammersmith]], London
+|Oswald Stoll
+|1,638
+|Another of London's last surviving Matcham theatres, later a television studio.<ref name="BMW172">Mercer Walker, p.172.</ref> It features an Arts and Crafts influence which, according to [[Historic England]], was unusual for Matcham. <ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358593 "BBC Television Theatre"], Historic England, accessed 26 September 2017.</ref> Largely altered from the original design.<ref name="BMW172" />
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1903|Dec|4}}
+|Empire Palace,
+|Newgate Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
+|Moss Empires
+|2,200
+|Matcham virtually rebuilt the Empire from an existing theatre that first opened in 1890. The theatre remained until its demolition in 1963 to make way for a central redevelopment.<ref name="BMW163" />
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1904|Jul|18}}
+|Ardwick Empire
+|Hyde Road, [[Manchester]]
+|Oswald Stoll and Moss Empires
+|3,000
+|Decorations by Felix De Jong; built as a variety theatre. The venue became a cinema in 1930 and five years later, was renamed as the New Manchester Hippodrome. Demolished in 1964.<ref name="BMW161" />
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1904|Dec|24}}
+|[[London Coliseum]]
+|St. Martin's Lane, [[Westminster]], London
+|Oswald Stoll
+|2,939
+|Widely regarded as Matcham's masterpiece by architectural critics, the Coliseum was built as Oswald Stoll's headquarters. The Coliseum opened in 1904 and it was Stoll's aim to provide family entertainment in a lavish setting.<ref name ="STAGE1" /> The facade was designed in the free Italian Renaissance style and the auditorium features a [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque theme]]. The seating capacity exceeds those of the nearby [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]] and [[Royal Opera House]]. The stage featured a revolutionary, £70,000 revolving stage which was the first of its kind in Great Briatain. This allowed for imaginative ideas, including the theatre's extravagant display celebrating [[Epsom Derby|Derby Day]], with guesting jockeys riding real horses, galloping against the moving revolve;<ref name ="STAGE1" /> this was removed in 1976. The theatre received a £4 million refurbishment in 2004. Now home to the [[English National Opera]].<ref>Earl and Sell, pp. 121–122.</ref> The theatrical historian Brian Mercer Walker called it the "fruit of close collaboration and understanding between client and architect." He further noted: "Matcham's frequently noticed skill in planning is here matched by a different kind of wizardry. Few of his contemporaries could have made so memorable an architectural statement on so short a frontage in such an unpretentious thoroughfare. It is much more impressive than, for example, the neighbouring Garrick Theatre of 1889..."<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 57.</ref> According to the theatrical magazine ''[[The Stage]]'', Matcham's design provided "a handsome marble staircase, the landmark tower topped by a revolving globe and an impressive range of amenities, including spacious tea-rooms on each floor, lifts to the theatre's upper levels, lavishly decorated retiring rooms, a roof-garden with a glass-domed roof and an information bureau from which messages and telegrams could be sent and where doctors might register their whereabouts in case of emergencies."<ref name ="STAGE1" />
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1904|Dec|26}}
+|Hippodrome
+|Oxford Street, [[Manchester]]
+|[[Oswald Stoll]] and Moss Empires
+|Unknown
+|Built as a hippodrome variety theatre and opened on 26 December 1904 with a variety show and a water spectacle from the London Hippodrome called "Tally Ho!". It closed on 2 March 1935 and was demolished soon after. Rebuilt 7 months laterand named The Gaumont Theatre.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 162.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1905|Oct|14}}
+|Coliseum
+|Eglington Street, Glasgow
+|Moss Empires
+|2,700
+|The Coliseum started life as a variety theatre and featured two large balconies, painted panels on the ceiling, and a marble-framed It closed and reopened as a cinema in the early 1920s and started showing films full-time in 1925. It became the first venue in Glasgow to show a [[Sound|talking picture]] in January 1929. It closed as a cinema in 1980 and was used as a bingo hall from the late 80s until 2003. The Coliseum caught fire on 25 May 2009.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8066723.stm "Fire engulfs derelict bingo hall"], BBC News, 25 May 2009, accessed 29 September 2017.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1910|Sep|5}}
+|Finsbury Park Empire
+|St Thomas's Road and Prah Road, [[Finsbury Park]], London
+|Moss Empires
+|2,000
+|Built as a variety theatre at a cost of £45,000, it closed in 1960 and was demolished five years later.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 167.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1911|Oct|4}}
+|New Middlesex
+|Drury Lane, Holborn
+|[[Oswald Stoll]], J.L. Grayson, and the Middlesex Theatre of Varieties Ltd.
+|3,038
+|Built as a variety theatre on the site of the former Middlesex Music Hall, previously the Old Mogul Saloon, the New Middlesex was renamed in 1919 to the Winter Garden theatre. It was demolished in 1965. The site is now occupied by the New London Theatre.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 171.</ref>
+|-
+! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1912|Sep|21}}
+|Wood Green Empire
+|High Road, Wood Green, London
+|[[Oswald Stoll]]
+|1,840
+|Matcham's last London theatre. It was leased by the BBC during the 1950s and 60s who televised variety shows there. It was closed and partially demolished in 1970. The frontage, including the entrance block, still remain.<ref>Earl and Sell, p. 149.</ref>
+|}
+:Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's theatres, except as otherwise noted, is Brian Mercer Walker, ''Frank Matcham: Theatre Architect'', pp. 154–173.
+
+===Theatres no longer since Brian Mercer Walker publication - No longer or mostly demolished===
+*1889 - Theatre Royal, St Helens - Mercer Walker, p. 120
+*1892 - Empire Palace, Edinburgh - Mercer Walker, p. 179
+
+==References==
+{{Reflist|30em}}
+
+==Sources==
+{{refbegin|25em}}
+*{{cite book | last= Baker | first=Richard Anthony | year=2014| title=British Music Hall: An Illustrated History| location=South Yorkshire| publisher=Penn & Sword History| isbn=978-1-78383-118-0}}
+*{{cite book | last=Earl | first=John | year=2008| title=British Theatres and Music Halls| location=South Yorkshire| publisher=Shire Publications| isbn=978-0-74780-627-1}}
+*{{cite book | last1 = Earl | first1 = John | last2 = Sell | first2 = Michael | year = 2000 | title = The Theatres Trust Guide to British Theatres 1750-1950 | publisher = A. & C. Black | location =London | isbn = 978-0-71365-688-6}}
+*{{cite book | last=Kilburn | first=Mike | year=2002| title=London's Theatres| location=London| publisher=New Holland | isbn=978-1-84330-069-4}}
+*{{cite book | last= Mercer Walker | first=Brian | year=1980| title=Frank Matcham: Theatre Architect| location=Belfast| publisher=Blackstaff Press| isbn=978-0-95341-271-6}}
+*{{cite book | last= Wilmore | first=David | year=2008| title=Frank Matcham & Co| location=South Yorkshire| publisher=Theatreshire Books| isbn=978-0-85640-231-9}}
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2 => 'Although being more prolific in the provinces, Matcham is perhaps best known for his work in London under [[Moss Empires]], for whom he designed the [[Hippodrome, London|Hippodrome]] in 1900,<ref name="E&S117-118">Earl and Sell, pp. 117–118.</ref> [[Hackney Empire]] (1901),<ref name="E&S114">Earl and Sell, p. 114.</ref> [[London Coliseum]] (1903),<ref name="E&S121">Earl and Sell, p. 121.</ref> [[Shepherds Bush Empire]] (1903),<ref name="E&S141">Earl and Sell, p. 141.</ref> [[London Palladium]] (1910),<ref name="E&S122-123">Earl and Sell, pp. 122–123.</ref> and the [[Victoria Palace Theatre|Victoria Palace]] in 1911.<ref name="E&S145">Earl and Sell, p. 145.</ref> He seldom ever strayed from theatrical design but on occasion, renovated public houses and, in 1898, designed a number of buildings for the redevelopment of [[Briggate]] in [[Leeds]], including the Cross and County Arcades.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 18.</ref><ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256197 "Numbers 1-43 and Cross Arcade"], [[Historic England]], accessed 3 December 2017.</ref>',
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4 => 'Matcham retired to [[Southend-on-sea]], [[Essex]], shortly before the First World War, and left his business, Matcham & Co., to his business partners, R.A. Briggs and F.G.M. Chancellor. Matcham died in 1920.<ref name="WDP10">"Mr Frank Matcham Dead", ''Western Daily Press'', 19 May 1920, p.10.</ref><ref name="TAJ682">''The Architect's Journal'', 26 May 1920, p. 682.</ref> Many of the 164 buildings that he either designed or rebuilt during his 40 year career, were demolished in the 1960s. There are currently around 52 known structures that survive, as of 2017.<ref name="DW178-183" /> According to the dramatist, [[Alan Bennett]], "there was scarcely a town in the United Kingdom that didn't boast one of Matcham's theatres and, though scores have been lost, enough remain to testify to the achievement of someone who was undoubtedly [the U.K's] greatest theatrical architect."<ref>A Preface to Frank Matcham & Co., by Alan Bennett; Wilmore, p. 4.</ref> ',
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153 => '! scope="row" | 1899<ref name=NHLE1205810>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205810 Tower Buildings], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>',
154 => '|[[Blackpool Tower#Tower Ballroom|Tower Ballroom]] and [[Blackpool Tower#Tower Circus|Tower Circus]]',
155 => '|[[File:Blackpool Tower Ballroom.jpg|100px|alt=A dance hall seen from the interior looking towards the stage stone]]',
156 => '|[[Blackpool]]',
157 => '|Built for the Blackpool Tower Company as part of the seaside town's regeneration to attract tourism. The ballroom's interior was Matcham's only design for the Blackpool Tower complex. The rest of the designs were carried out by Maxwell & Tuke. The ballroom was seriously damaged in a fire in 1956, but was restored to its original design by Andrew Mazzei at a cost of £500,000 two years later.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 127.</ref>',
158 => '|{{Grade I colour}}|I<ref name=NHLE1205810 />',
159 => '|-',
160 => '! scope="row" | 1900<ref name="HE1066287">[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1066287 Crown Public House the London Hippodrome Theatre], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 13 December 2017.</ref>',
161 => '|[[London Hippodrome]]',
162 => '|[[File:London Hippodrome (5143609688).jpg|100px|alt=Red sandstone frontage in the ornate and French Renaissance style and with a theatrically Baroque skyline. The wording "London Hippodrome" face to the front on the upper level, also in red sandstone]]',
163 => '|Cranbourne Street, [[Westminster]], London',
164 => '|The Hippodrome is contained within a block also comprising a public house, shops, and chambers, all built by Matcham. The theatre was built as a circus and then altered, in 1909, to a theatre of varieties.<ref name="HE1066287" /> The theatre survives but has been radically altered internally<ref name="BMW168">Mercer Walker, p. 168.</ref> and is now a casino and entertainment complex.<ref>[http://committees.westminster.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=3682 Variation of Casino Premises Licence - The Hippodrome Casino, 10-14 Cranbourn Street, WC2"], [[Westminster City Council]], accessed 13 December 2017.</ref>',
165 => '|{{Grade II colour}}|II<ref name="HE1066287" />',
166 => '|-',
167 => '! scope="row" |1898–1900<ref name="NHLE1256197>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256197 Numbers 1-43 and Cross Arcade], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>',
168 => '|[[Briggate, Leeds#Arcades|County Arcade]], [[Leeds]]',
169 => '|[[File:County Arcade.jpg|100px|alt=A wide shopping precinct, seen from within the interior, with glass roofs, detailed artwork to the cornices, and shop fronts to either side]]',
170 => '|[[Leeds]]',
171 => '|Together with a small number of public houses in London, the County Arcade is rare inasmuch that it is one of the only major, non-theatrical buildings to be designed by Matcham.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 18.</ref>',
172 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name="NHLE1256197 />',
173 => '|-',
174 => '! scope="row" |1898–1900<ref name="NHLE1255862>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1255862 49 and 51, Vicar Lane; 2–24, King Edward Street; 115–120, Brigatte], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>',
175 => '|49 and 51, Vicar Lane; 2–24, King Edward Street; 115–120, Brigatte ',
176 => '|',
177 => '|[[Leeds]]',
178 => '|Shops and offices, built for the Leeds Estates Company as part of the County Arcade development.<ref name="NHLE1255862 />',
179 => '|{{Grade II colour}}|II<ref name="NHLE1255862 />',
180 => '|-',
181 => '! scope="row" | 1901<ref name=NHLE1226960>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1226960 The Hackney Empire], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>',
182 => '|Hackney Empire',
183 => '|[[File:Hackney empire 1.jpg|100px|alt=A red brick building with buff terracota dressings; Victorian Baroque in style. Two storeys with a three bay front. Large, illuminating wording of "Hackney Empire" on the front, in red lettering.]]',
184 => '|[[London Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], London',
185 => '|Variety theatre, built for [[Oswald Stoll]], who initially intended it to become his headquarters. Stoll, mid-way through construction, decided instead to locate his offices to central London, which resulted in a drastic reduction in budget for the Empire in order to raise extra finances for Stoll's eventual headquarters, the [[London Coliseum]].<ref>"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, pp. 102–103.</ref> Matcham rushed together a secondary design of the Empire's façade and presented it to Stoll on a piece of scrap tracing paper.<ref>"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, pp. 104–105.</ref> The exterior was a design that Matcham always loathed but was one, according to the historian Michael Sell, that demonstrated the architect's "seemingly endless powers of invention" and one that will "forever remain[ed] a landmark".<ref>"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, p. 105.</ref> The auditorium is noted by [[Historic England]] as being "one of the most exuberant Matcham interiors in Britain",<ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1226960 "The Hackney Empire"], [[Historic England]], accessed 24 September 2017.</ref> while the theatrical author, Brian Walker, called the Empire's interior "the most perfect Matcham interior in Greater London.<ref>Walker, p. 52.</ref>',
186 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name=NHLE1226960 />',
187 => '|-',
188 => '! scope="row" | 1903 (restoration only)',
189 => '|[[Devonshire Park Theatre]]',
190 => '|[[File:Devonshire Park Theatre.jpg|100px|alt=Light grey facade of a large building with "Devonshire Park Theatre" inscribed on the central face]]',
191 => '|[[Eastbourne]], [[Sussex]]',
192 => '|Built in 1884, by Henry Currey. The interior received a heavy restoration by Matcham in 1903.<ref name="NHLE1043618">[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043618 "Devonshire Park Theatre"], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>',
193 => '|{{Grade II colour}}|II<ref name="NHLE1043618" />',
194 => '|-',
195 => '! scope="row" |1903<ref name="NHLE1315842">[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1315842 "Royal Hall"], ''National Heritage List for England'', [[Historic England]], accessed 5 December 2017.</ref>',
196 => '|Royal Hall',
197 => '|[[File:Royal Hall, Harrogate.jpg|100px|Picture taken from the grand circle of a theatre auditorium with gold decorative features with a small Centre stage and red curtain]]',
198 => '|[[Harrogate]]',
199 => '|Concert hall, the design for which was won by the architect Robert Beale in 1899. Matcham was enlisted to assist with the project and became the senior architect. The interior is solely attributed to Matcham. The building was attached to the pre-existing Concert Room of 1835.<ref name="NHLE1315842" />',
200 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*<ref name="NHLE1315842" />',
201 => '|-',
202 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}',
203 => '|Empire Palace',
204 => '|',
205 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
206 => '|',
207 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
208 => '|-',
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210 => '|Empire Palace',
211 => '|',
212 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
213 => '|',
214 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
215 => '|-',
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217 => '|Empire Palace',
218 => '|',
219 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
220 => '|',
221 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
222 => '|-',
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224 => '|Empire Palace',
225 => '|',
226 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
227 => '|',
228 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
229 => '|-',
230 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}',
231 => '|Empire Palace',
232 => '|',
233 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
234 => '|',
235 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
236 => '|-',
237 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}',
238 => '|Empire Palace',
239 => '|',
240 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
241 => '|',
242 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
243 => '|-',
244 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}',
245 => '|Empire Palace',
246 => '|',
247 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
248 => '|',
249 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
250 => '|-',
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252 => '|Empire Palace',
253 => '|',
254 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
255 => '|',
256 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
257 => '|-',
258 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}',
259 => '|Empire Palace',
260 => '|',
261 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
262 => '|',
263 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
264 => '|-',
265 => '|}',
266 => ':Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.',
267 => false,
268 => '===Ireland===',
269 => '{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"',
270 => '! scope="col" | Date',
271 => '! scope="col" | Theatre',
272 => '! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph',
273 => '! scope="col" | Location',
274 => '! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes',
275 => '! scope="col" | Grade',
276 => '|-',
277 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}',
278 => '|Empire Palace',
279 => '|',
280 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
281 => '|',
282 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
283 => '|-',
284 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1895|December|23}}',
285 => '|Grand Opera House',
286 => '|',
287 => '|Great Victoria Street, [[Belfast]]',
288 => '|Warden Ltd instructed Matcham to design a theatre for drama and circus performers and was built in the oriental style on an open corner plot to create a three-dimensional build up from the low corners to the higher gabled centrepiece. The dome-shaped minarets are the only surviving oriental motifs on any of Matcham's interiors. The author Brian Mercer Walker describes the theatre as being "...by far the most notable surviving example of any theatre in the Untied Kingdom, decorated in [oriental] style."<ref>Mercer Walker, pp. 128–129.</ref> The building was threatened with demolition in the 1970s but was saved by a campaign, led by the Ulster Architectural Society. As a result, it became the first listed building in [[Northern Ireland]],<ref>[https://www.goh.co.uk/history-heritage "History and Heritage"], Grand Opera House official website, accessed 12 December 2017.</ref> although it's grading has never been made public.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 128.</ref>',
289 => '|Listed',
290 => '|-',
291 => '|}',
292 => ':Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.',
293 => false,
294 => '===Scotland===',
295 => '{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"',
296 => '! scope="col" | Date',
297 => '! scope="col" | Theatre',
298 => '! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph',
299 => '! scope="col" | Location',
300 => '! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes',
301 => '! scope="col" | Grade',
302 => '|-',
303 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}',
304 => '|Empire Palace',
305 => '|',
306 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
307 => '|',
308 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
309 => '|-',
310 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}',
311 => '|Empire Palace',
312 => '|',
313 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
314 => '|',
315 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
316 => '|-',
317 => '|}',
318 => ':Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.',
319 => false,
320 => '===Wales===',
321 => '{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"',
322 => '! scope="col" | Date',
323 => '! scope="col" | Theatre',
324 => '! scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Photograph',
325 => '! scope="col" | Location',
326 => '! scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable"|Notes',
327 => '! scope="col" | Grade',
328 => '|-',
329 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}',
330 => '|Empire Palace',
331 => '|',
332 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
333 => '|',
334 => '|{{Grade II* colour}}|II*',
335 => '|-',
336 => '|}',
337 => ':Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, ''Frank Matcham & Co'', pp. 178–183.',
338 => false,
339 => '====Theatres designed for Moss and Stoll====',
340 => '{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"',
341 => '! scope="col" | Opening date',
342 => '! scope="col" | Theatre',
343 => '! scope="col" | Location',
344 => '! scope="col" | Proprietor',
345 => '! scope="col" | Seating capacity',
346 => '! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes',
347 => '|-',
348 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1892|March|4}}',
349 => '|Empire Palace',
350 => '|Nicholson Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
351 => '|[[Edward Moss]]',
352 => '|3,000',
353 => '|The first of the Moss Empire theatres. Destroyed by fire in 1911 after an illusion by [[Sigmund Neuberger|The Great Lafayette]] failed and caught the auditorium curtain alight.<ref>[http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/film/lost-edinburgh-the-empire-theatre-1-3001370 "Lost Edinburgh: The Empire Theatre"], ''The Scotsman'', accessed 25 September 2017.</ref>',
354 => '|-',
355 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1895|Nov|4}}',
356 => '|Empire',
357 => '|Charles Street, [[Sheffield]]',
358 => '|[[Edward Moss]]',
359 => '|2,500',
360 => '|Built in the [[Architecture of Italy|Italian style]], the local journals called the exterior "a phantasmagoric piece of architecture" and the interior as being "a dream of loveliness and beauty".<ref>Quoted in Mercer Walker, p. 165.</ref> Demolished in 1959.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 165.</ref>',
361 => '|-',
362 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1896|May|4}}',
363 => '|Empire Palace',
364 => '|Queen Street, [[Cardiff]]',
365 => '|[[Oswald Stoll]]',
366 => '|2,036',
367 => '|A replacement of a former Empire theatre. Destroyed by fire on 31 October 1899. Rebuilt by Matcham with an increased seating capacity. The building survived until 1961 when it was demolished.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 157.</ref>',
368 => '|-',
369 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1897|Apr|5}}',
370 => '|Empire',
371 => '|Sauchiehall Street, [[Edinburgh]]',
372 => '|[[Edward Moss]] and the Glasgow Empire Co.',
373 => '|2,500',
374 => '|Built upon land once occupied by the Gaiety theatre, which was later renamed as the Glasgow Empire. Rebuilt by Matcham and became, in the 1930s, the second largest variety theatre in Britain.<ref>[http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collections/sta/Collections/empire/index.html "Empire Theatre, Glasgow"], Scottish Theatre Archive, University of Scotland, accessed 25 September 2017.</ref> Survived until 1963 when it was demolished.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 158.</ref>',
375 => '|-',
376 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1897|Dec|6}}',
377 => '|Palace',
378 => '|Analby Road, [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]]',
379 => '|[[Edward Moss]] and the Liverpool, Leeds and Hull Empire Palaces Co.',
380 => '|1,800',
381 => '|The building adjoined a similar entertainment venue called Hengler's Circus. The Palace doubled as an amphitheatre. Enlarged in 1928 and closed 11 years later. Reopened in 1951 and renamed the Continental Palace in 1957. Closed for the final time in July 1965 and demolished the following year.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 160.</ref>',
382 => '|-',
383 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1898|Feb|28}}',
384 => '|Empire Palace',
385 => '|Sherwood Street, [[Nottingham]]',
386 => '|[[Edward Moss]]',
387 => '|2,500',
388 => '|Designed in the [[Chinese architecture|Oriental style]] with Indian art in the auditorium.<ref>''The Builder'', 12 March 1898, p. 12.</ref> The theatre closed in June 1958 and was demolished 11 years later.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 164.</ref>',
389 => '|-',
390 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1898|Aug|29}}',
391 => '|Empire Palace',
392 => '|[[Briggate, Leeds|Briggate]], [[Leeds]]',
393 => '|[[Edward Moss]] and the Liverpool, Leeds and Hull Empire Palaces Co.',
394 => '|Unknown',
395 => '|Completed in the [[Architecture of the Netherlands|Flemish style]],<ref name="BMW161">Mercer Walker, p. 161.</ref> the ''Leeds Mercury'' called the theatre the "handsomest of its kind in the country". They opined that Matcham's plans "[are] a triumph of artistic skill [with] the moulded work being very fine indeed".<ref>''Leeds Mercury'', 30 August 1898, p. 36.</ref> The theatre closed on 25 February 1961 and was demolished the following year.<ref name="BMW161" />',
396 => '|-',
397 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1899|Jul|3}}',
398 => '|Empire Palace',
399 => '|Charles Street, [[Newport, Wales|Newport]]',
400 => '|[[Oswald Stoll]] and the Cardiff, Newport and Swansea Co. ',
401 => '|Unknown',
402 => '|Built at a cost of £20,000 on the site of a former theatre. The walls were decorated using Japanese wall paper and the ceilings covered in [[Lincrusta]]. Long since demolished.<ref name="BMW163">Mercer Walker, p. 163.</ref>',
403 => '|-',
404 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1899|Jul|31}}',
405 => '|New Cross Empire',
406 => '|New Cross Road, [[New Cross]], London',
407 => '|[[Edward Moss]] and the London District Empire Palaces Ltd.',
408 => '|3,000',
409 => '|''The Builder'' described the interior as being in the [[17th-century French art|Louis XIV style]].<ref>''The Builder'', 19 August 1899, p. 4.</ref> The building was demolished in the late-1950s in favour of the construction of a filling station.<ref><ref>Mercer Walker, p. 170.</ref>',
410 => '|-',
411 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1901|Jun|17}}',
412 => '|Palace Theatre of Varieties',
413 => '|Belgrave Gate, Leicester',
414 => '|[[Oswald Stoll]] and Moss Empires',
415 => '|2,750',
416 => '|Designed in [[Moresque|Moresque style]]. The theatre featured a semi-circular glass and iron domed roof and internally, had rockeries, fountains and dripping wells. The building was demolished in 1960.<ref name="BMW161">Mercer Walker, p. 161.</ref>',
417 => '|-',
418 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1903|Aug|17}}',
419 => '|[[Shepherd's Bush Empire]]',
420 => '|Shepherd's Bush, [[Hammersmith]], London',
421 => '|Oswald Stoll',
422 => '|1,638',
423 => '|Another of London's last surviving Matcham theatres, later a television studio.<ref name="BMW172">Mercer Walker, p.172.</ref> It features an Arts and Crafts influence which, according to [[Historic England]], was unusual for Matcham. <ref>[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358593 "BBC Television Theatre"], Historic England, accessed 26 September 2017.</ref> Largely altered from the original design.<ref name="BMW172" />',
424 => '|-',
425 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1903|Dec|4}}',
426 => '|Empire Palace, ',
427 => '|Newgate Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ',
428 => '|Moss Empires',
429 => '|2,200',
430 => '|Matcham virtually rebuilt the Empire from an existing theatre that first opened in 1890. The theatre remained until its demolition in 1963 to make way for a central redevelopment.<ref name="BMW163" />',
431 => '|-',
432 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1904|Jul|18}}',
433 => '|Ardwick Empire',
434 => '|Hyde Road, [[Manchester]] ',
435 => '|Oswald Stoll and Moss Empires',
436 => '|3,000',
437 => '|Decorations by Felix De Jong; built as a variety theatre. The venue became a cinema in 1930 and five years later, was renamed as the New Manchester Hippodrome. Demolished in 1964.<ref name="BMW161" />',
438 => '|-',
439 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1904|Dec|24}}',
440 => '|[[London Coliseum]]',
441 => '|St. Martin's Lane, [[Westminster]], London',
442 => '|Oswald Stoll',
443 => '|2,939',
444 => '|Widely regarded as Matcham's masterpiece by architectural critics, the Coliseum was built as Oswald Stoll's headquarters. The Coliseum opened in 1904 and it was Stoll's aim to provide family entertainment in a lavish setting.<ref name ="STAGE1" /> The facade was designed in the free Italian Renaissance style and the auditorium features a [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque theme]]. The seating capacity exceeds those of the nearby [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]] and [[Royal Opera House]]. The stage featured a revolutionary, £70,000 revolving stage which was the first of its kind in Great Briatain. This allowed for imaginative ideas, including the theatre's extravagant display celebrating [[Epsom Derby|Derby Day]], with guesting jockeys riding real horses, galloping against the moving revolve;<ref name ="STAGE1" /> this was removed in 1976. The theatre received a £4 million refurbishment in 2004. Now home to the [[English National Opera]].<ref>Earl and Sell, pp. 121–122.</ref> The theatrical historian Brian Mercer Walker called it the "fruit of close collaboration and understanding between client and architect." He further noted: "Matcham's frequently noticed skill in planning is here matched by a different kind of wizardry. Few of his contemporaries could have made so memorable an architectural statement on so short a frontage in such an unpretentious thoroughfare. It is much more impressive than, for example, the neighbouring Garrick Theatre of 1889..."<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 57.</ref> According to the theatrical magazine ''[[The Stage]]'', Matcham's design provided "a handsome marble staircase, the landmark tower topped by a revolving globe and an impressive range of amenities, including spacious tea-rooms on each floor, lifts to the theatre's upper levels, lavishly decorated retiring rooms, a roof-garden with a glass-domed roof and an information bureau from which messages and telegrams could be sent and where doctors might register their whereabouts in case of emergencies."<ref name ="STAGE1" /> ',
445 => '|-',
446 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1904|Dec|26}}',
447 => '|Hippodrome',
448 => '|Oxford Street, [[Manchester]]',
449 => '|[[Oswald Stoll]] and Moss Empires',
450 => '|Unknown',
451 => '|Built as a hippodrome variety theatre and opened on 26 December 1904 with a variety show and a water spectacle from the London Hippodrome called "Tally Ho!". It closed on 2 March 1935 and was demolished soon after. Rebuilt 7 months laterand named The Gaumont Theatre.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 162.</ref>',
452 => '|-',
453 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1905|Oct|14}}',
454 => '|Coliseum',
455 => '|Eglington Street, Glasgow',
456 => '|Moss Empires',
457 => '|2,700',
458 => '|The Coliseum started life as a variety theatre and featured two large balconies, painted panels on the ceiling, and a marble-framed It closed and reopened as a cinema in the early 1920s and started showing films full-time in 1925. It became the first venue in Glasgow to show a [[Sound|talking picture]] in January 1929. It closed as a cinema in 1980 and was used as a bingo hall from the late 80s until 2003. The Coliseum caught fire on 25 May 2009.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8066723.stm "Fire engulfs derelict bingo hall"], BBC News, 25 May 2009, accessed 29 September 2017.</ref>',
459 => '|-',
460 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1910|Sep|5}}',
461 => '|Finsbury Park Empire',
462 => '|St Thomas's Road and Prah Road, [[Finsbury Park]], London',
463 => '|Moss Empires',
464 => '|2,000',
465 => '|Built as a variety theatre at a cost of £45,000, it closed in 1960 and was demolished five years later.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 167.</ref>',
466 => '|-',
467 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1911|Oct|4}}',
468 => '|New Middlesex',
469 => '|Drury Lane, Holborn',
470 => '|[[Oswald Stoll]], J.L. Grayson, and the Middlesex Theatre of Varieties Ltd.',
471 => '|3,038',
472 => '|Built as a variety theatre on the site of the former Middlesex Music Hall, previously the Old Mogul Saloon, the New Middlesex was renamed in 1919 to the Winter Garden theatre. It was demolished in 1965. The site is now occupied by the New London Theatre.<ref>Mercer Walker, p. 171.</ref>',
473 => '|-',
474 => '! scope="row" | {{Dts|format=dmy|1912|Sep|21}}',
475 => '|Wood Green Empire',
476 => '|High Road, Wood Green, London',
477 => '|[[Oswald Stoll]]',
478 => '|1,840',
479 => '|Matcham's last London theatre. It was leased by the BBC during the 1950s and 60s who televised variety shows there. It was closed and partially demolished in 1970. The frontage, including the entrance block, still remain.<ref>Earl and Sell, p. 149.</ref>',
480 => '|}',
481 => ':Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> The source for Matcham's theatres, except as otherwise noted, is Brian Mercer Walker, ''Frank Matcham: Theatre Architect'', pp. 154–173.',
482 => false,
483 => '===Theatres no longer since Brian Mercer Walker publication - No longer or mostly demolished===',
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492 => '*{{cite book | last= Baker | first=Richard Anthony | year=2014| title=British Music Hall: An Illustrated History| location=South Yorkshire| publisher=Penn & Sword History| isbn=978-1-78383-118-0}}',
493 => '*{{cite book | last=Earl | first=John | year=2008| title=British Theatres and Music Halls| location=South Yorkshire| publisher=Shire Publications| isbn=978-0-74780-627-1}}',
494 => '*{{cite book | last1 = Earl | first1 = John | last2 = Sell | first2 = Michael | year = 2000 | title = The Theatres Trust Guide to British Theatres 1750-1950 | publisher = A. & C. Black | location =London | isbn = 978-0-71365-688-6}}',
495 => '*{{cite book | last=Kilburn | first=Mike | year=2002| title=London's Theatres| location=London| publisher=New Holland | isbn=978-1-84330-069-4}}',
496 => '*{{cite book | last= Mercer Walker | first=Brian | year=1980| title=Frank Matcham: Theatre Architect| location=Belfast| publisher=Blackstaff Press| isbn=978-0-95341-271-6}}',
497 => '*{{cite book | last= Wilmore | first=David | year=2008| title=Frank Matcham & Co| location=South Yorkshire| publisher=Theatreshire Books| isbn=978-0-85640-231-9}}'
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<p>The English architect <a href="/wiki/Frank_Matcham" title="Frank Matcham">Frank Matcham</a> was responsible for the design and refurbishment of around 164 buildings, mostly theatres, throughout the United Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-DW178-183_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DW178-183-1">[1]</a></sup> He entered the architectural profession when he was 21, in 1874, and joined the practice of <a href="/wiki/J._T._Robinson" title="J. T. Robinson">J. T. Robinson</a>, his future father-in-law, a few years later.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Matcham completed his first solo design, the Elephant and Castle theatre, in June 1879, having taken over Robinson’s practice upon his death.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> He founded his own practice, Matcham & Co., in 1883 which experienced much prosperity.<sup id="cite_ref-EARL92_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EARL92-4">[4]</a></sup> His most successful period was between 1892 and 1912, during which there was an increased demand for variety theatres which resulted in the closure and dismantlement of many music halls, which had become outdated.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup></p>
<p>Although being more prolific in the provinces, Matcham is perhaps best known for his work in London under <a href="/wiki/Moss_Empires" title="Moss Empires">Moss Empires</a>, for whom he designed the <a href="/wiki/Hippodrome,_London" title="Hippodrome, London">Hippodrome</a> in 1900,<sup id="cite_ref-E&S117-118_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-E&S117-118-6">[6]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hackney_Empire" title="Hackney Empire">Hackney Empire</a> (1901),<sup id="cite_ref-E&S114_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-E&S114-7">[7]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/London_Coliseum" title="London Coliseum">London Coliseum</a> (1903),<sup id="cite_ref-E&S121_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-E&S121-8">[8]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Shepherds_Bush_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Shepherds Bush Empire">Shepherds Bush Empire</a> (1903),<sup id="cite_ref-E&S141_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-E&S141-9">[9]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/London_Palladium" title="London Palladium">London Palladium</a> (1910),<sup id="cite_ref-E&S122-123_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-E&S122-123-10">[10]</a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Palace_Theatre" title="Victoria Palace Theatre">Victoria Palace</a> in 1911.<sup id="cite_ref-E&S145_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-E&S145-11">[11]</a></sup> He seldom ever strayed from theatrical design but on occasion, renovated public houses and, in 1898, designed a number of buildings for the redevelopment of <a href="/wiki/Briggate" class="mw-redirect" title="Briggate">Briggate</a> in <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>, including the Cross and County Arcades.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup></p>
<p>Matcham retired to <a href="/wiki/Southend-on-sea" class="mw-redirect" title="Southend-on-sea">Southend-on-sea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>, shortly before the First World War, and left his business, Matcham & Co., to his business partners, R.A. Briggs and F.G.M. Chancellor. Matcham died in 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-WDP10_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDP10-14">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TAJ682_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAJ682-15">[15]</a></sup> Many of the 164 buildings that he either designed or rebuilt during his 40 year career, were demolished in the 1960s. There are currently around 52 known structures that survive, as of 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-DW178-183_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DW178-183-1">[1]</a></sup> According to the dramatist, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Bennett" title="Alan Bennett">Alan Bennett</a>, "there was scarcely a town in the United Kingdom that didn't boast one of Matcham's theatres and, though scores have been lost, enough remain to testify to the achievement of someone who was undoubtedly [the U.K's] greatest theatrical architect."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup></p>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Key"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Key</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Buildings"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Buildings</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#England"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">England</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Ireland"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Ireland</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Scotland"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Scotland</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Wales"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Wales</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7"><a href="#Theatres_designed_for_Moss_and_Stoll"><span class="tocnumber">2.4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Theatres designed for Moss and Stoll</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Theatres_no_longer_since_Brian_Mercer_Walker_publication_-_No_longer_or_mostly_demolished"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Theatres no longer since Brian Mercer Walker publication - No longer or mostly demolished</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
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<td>Buildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important</td>
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<td>Particularly important buildings of more than special interest</td>
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<td>Buildings of national importance and special interest</td>
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<th scope="col">Date</th>
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<th scope="col">Location</th>
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<th scope="row">1891</th>
<td><a href="/wiki/Everyman_Theatre,_Cheltenham" title="Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham">Everyman Theatre</a></td>
<td></td>
<td>Regent Street, <a href="/wiki/Cheltenham" title="Cheltenham">Cheltenham</a></td>
<td>Built as an Opera House, from which it took its original name, for the Cheltenham Theatre and Opera House Company. It was renamed the Everyman Theatre in 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup></td>
<td style="background-color: #ACE1AF">II</td>
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<th scope="row">1894<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1280615_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1280615-19">[19]</a></sup></th>
<td><a href="/wiki/Grand_Theatre,_Blackpool" title="Grand Theatre, Blackpool">Grand Theatre</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/File:Blackpool_Grand_Theatre.jpg" class="image"><img alt="A theatre audltorium with gold, decorative walls and ceiling, and blue stage curtain." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Blackpool_Grand_Theatre.jpg/100px-Blackpool_Grand_Theatre.jpg" width="100" height="143" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Blackpool_Grand_Theatre.jpg/150px-Blackpool_Grand_Theatre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Blackpool_Grand_Theatre.jpg/200px-Blackpool_Grand_Theatre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="4959" /></a></td>
<td>33 Church Street, <a href="/wiki/Blackpool" title="Blackpool">Blackpool</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td>
<td>Built at a cost of £20,000 for Thomas Sergenson for the intended use of a drama theatre. The exterior was built using brick with stone dressings and the plasterwork in the auditorium was carried out by the Plastic Decoration Company, who were based in London. The Grand was listed as Grade II in January 1972, and closed later that year. Because of its listing, permission to demolish it was refused the following year. The theatre remained closed until 1977 when it received a £200,000 renovation.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1280615_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1280615-19">[19]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row">1894<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1258906_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1258906-21">[21]</a></sup></th>
<td><a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Wakefield" title="Theatre Royal, Wakefield">Theatre Royal</a></td>
<td></td>
<td>92-100, Westgate, <a href="/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield">Wakefield</a></td>
<td>Built as a drama theatre to a cost of £13,000 on the former site of the <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 18th century Theatre Royal, the building was originally named the Opera House and is the smallest of Matcham's existing theatres. It became a cinema in 1955 and, since 1966, has been a Bingo club.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1258906_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1258906-21">[21]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row">1899<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1065384_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1065384-23">[23]</a></sup></th>
<td><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Theatre" title="Richmond Theatre">Richmond Theatre</a></td>
<td></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Richmond_upon_Thames" title="London Borough of Richmond upon Thames">Richmond upon Thames</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1065384_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1065384-23">[23]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row">1899<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1205810_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1205810-24">[24]</a></sup></th>
<td><a href="/wiki/Blackpool_Tower#Tower_Ballroom" title="Blackpool Tower">Tower Ballroom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blackpool_Tower#Tower_Circus" title="Blackpool Tower">Tower Circus</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/File:Blackpool_Tower_Ballroom.jpg" class="image"><img alt="A dance hall seen from the interior looking towards the stage stone" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Blackpool_Tower_Ballroom.jpg/100px-Blackpool_Tower_Ballroom.jpg" width="100" height="150" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Blackpool_Tower_Ballroom.jpg/150px-Blackpool_Tower_Ballroom.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Blackpool_Tower_Ballroom.jpg/200px-Blackpool_Tower_Ballroom.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="5184" /></a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Blackpool" title="Blackpool">Blackpool</a></td>
<td>Built for the Blackpool Tower Company as part of the seaside town's regeneration to attract tourism. The ballroom's interior was Matcham's only design for the Blackpool Tower complex. The rest of the designs were carried out by Maxwell & Tuke. The ballroom was seriously damaged in a fire in 1956, but was restored to its original design by Andrew Mazzei at a cost of £500,000 two years later.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup></td>
<td style="background-color: #FFC0CB">I<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1205810_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1205810-24">[24]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row">1900<sup id="cite_ref-HE1066287_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HE1066287-26">[26]</a></sup></th>
<td><a href="/wiki/London_Hippodrome" class="mw-redirect" title="London Hippodrome">London Hippodrome</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/File:London_Hippodrome_(5143609688).jpg" class="image"><img alt="Red sandstone frontage in the ornate and French Renaissance style and with a theatrically Baroque skyline. The wording "London Hippodrome" face to the front on the upper level, also in red sandstone" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/London_Hippodrome_%285143609688%29.jpg/100px-London_Hippodrome_%285143609688%29.jpg" width="100" height="155" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/London_Hippodrome_%285143609688%29.jpg/150px-London_Hippodrome_%285143609688%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/London_Hippodrome_%285143609688%29.jpg/200px-London_Hippodrome_%285143609688%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2840" data-file-height="4392" /></a></td>
<td>Cranbourne Street, <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, London</td>
<td>The Hippodrome is contained within a block also comprising a public house, shops, and chambers, all built by Matcham. The theatre was built as a circus and then altered, in 1909, to a theatre of varieties.<sup id="cite_ref-HE1066287_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HE1066287-26">[26]</a></sup> The theatre survives but has been radically altered internally<sup id="cite_ref-BMW168_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMW168-27">[27]</a></sup> and is now a casino and entertainment complex.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup></td>
<td style="background-color: #ACE1AF">II<sup id="cite_ref-HE1066287_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HE1066287-26">[26]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row">1898–1900<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1256197_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1256197-29">[29]</a></sup></th>
<td><a href="/wiki/Briggate,_Leeds#Arcades" title="Briggate, Leeds">County Arcade</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/File:County_Arcade.jpg" class="image"><img alt="A wide shopping precinct, seen from within the interior, with glass roofs, detailed artwork to the cornices, and shop fronts to either side" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/County_Arcade.jpg/100px-County_Arcade.jpg" width="100" height="133" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/County_Arcade.jpg/150px-County_Arcade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/County_Arcade.jpg/200px-County_Arcade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a></td>
<td>Together with a small number of public houses in London, the County Arcade is rare inasmuch that it is one of the only major, non-theatrical buildings to be designed by Matcham.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a></sup></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1256197_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1256197-29">[29]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row">1898–1900<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1255862_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1255862-31">[31]</a></sup></th>
<td>49 and 51, Vicar Lane; 2–24, King Edward Street; 115–120, Brigatte</td>
<td></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a></td>
<td>Shops and offices, built for the Leeds Estates Company as part of the County Arcade development.<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1255862_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1255862-31">[31]</a></sup></td>
<td style="background-color: #ACE1AF">II<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1255862_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1255862-31">[31]</a></sup></td>
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<tr>
<th scope="row">1901<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1226960_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1226960-32">[32]</a></sup></th>
<td>Hackney Empire</td>
<td><a href="/wiki/File:Hackney_empire_1.jpg" class="image"><img alt="A red brick building with buff terracota dressings; Victorian Baroque in style. Two storeys with a three bay front. Large, illuminating wording of "Hackney Empire" on the front, in red lettering." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Hackney_empire_1.jpg/100px-Hackney_empire_1.jpg" width="100" height="99" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Hackney_empire_1.jpg/150px-Hackney_empire_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Hackney_empire_1.jpg/200px-Hackney_empire_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="632" /></a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hackney" title="London Borough of Hackney">Hackney</a>, London</td>
<td>Variety theatre, built for <a href="/wiki/Oswald_Stoll" title="Oswald Stoll">Oswald Stoll</a>, who initially intended it to become his headquarters. Stoll, mid-way through construction, decided instead to locate his offices to central London, which resulted in a drastic reduction in budget for the Empire in order to raise extra finances for Stoll's eventual headquarters, the <a href="/wiki/London_Coliseum" title="London Coliseum">London Coliseum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup> Matcham rushed together a secondary design of the Empire's façade and presented it to Stoll on a piece of scrap tracing paper.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup> The exterior was a design that Matcham always loathed but was one, according to the historian Michael Sell, that demonstrated the architect's "seemingly endless powers of invention" and one that will "forever remain[ed] a landmark".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup> The auditorium is noted by <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a> as being "one of the most exuberant Matcham interiors in Britain",<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup> while the theatrical author, Brian Walker, called the Empire's interior "the most perfect Matcham interior in Greater London.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1226960_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1226960-32">[32]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row">1903 (restoration only)</th>
<td><a href="/wiki/Devonshire_Park_Theatre" title="Devonshire Park Theatre">Devonshire Park Theatre</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/File:Devonshire_Park_Theatre.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Light grey facade of a large building with "Devonshire Park Theatre" inscribed on the central face" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Devonshire_Park_Theatre.jpg/100px-Devonshire_Park_Theatre.jpg" width="100" height="75" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Devonshire_Park_Theatre.jpg/150px-Devonshire_Park_Theatre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Devonshire_Park_Theatre.jpg/200px-Devonshire_Park_Theatre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1666" data-file-height="1250" /></a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Eastbourne" title="Eastbourne">Eastbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a></td>
<td>Built in 1884, by Henry Currey. The interior received a heavy restoration by Matcham in 1903.<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1043618_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1043618-38">[38]</a></sup></td>
<td style="background-color: #ACE1AF">II<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1043618_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1043618-38">[38]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row">1903<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1315842_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1315842-39">[39]</a></sup></th>
<td>Royal Hall</td>
<td><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_Hall,_Harrogate.jpg" class="image" title="Picture taken from the grand circle of a theatre auditorium with gold decorative features with a small Centre stage and red curtain"><img alt="Picture taken from the grand circle of a theatre auditorium with gold decorative features with a small Centre stage and red curtain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Royal_Hall%2C_Harrogate.jpg/100px-Royal_Hall%2C_Harrogate.jpg" width="100" height="67" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Royal_Hall%2C_Harrogate.jpg/150px-Royal_Hall%2C_Harrogate.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Royal_Hall%2C_Harrogate.jpg/200px-Royal_Hall%2C_Harrogate.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="428" /></a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Harrogate" title="Harrogate">Harrogate</a></td>
<td>Concert hall, the design for which was won by the architect Robert Beale in 1899. Matcham was enlisted to assist with the project and became the senior architect. The interior is solely attributed to Matcham. The building was attached to the pre-existing Concert Room of 1835.<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1315842_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1315842-39">[39]</a></sup></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*<sup id="cite_ref-NHLE1315842_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NHLE1315842-39">[39]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
</tr>
</table>
<dl>
<dd>Note: The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, <i>Frank Matcham & Co</i>, pp. 178–183.</dd>
</dl>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Ireland">Ireland</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theatres_designed_by_Frank_Matcham&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ireland">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<th scope="col">Date</th>
<th scope="col">Theatre</th>
<th scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable">Photograph</th>
<th scope="col">Location</th>
<th scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable">Notes</th>
<th scope="col">Grade</th>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001895-12-23-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">23 December 1895</span></th>
<td>Grand Opera House</td>
<td></td>
<td>Great Victoria Street, <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a></td>
<td>Warden Ltd instructed Matcham to design a theatre for drama and circus performers and was built in the oriental style on an open corner plot to create a three-dimensional build up from the low corners to the higher gabled centrepiece. The dome-shaped minarets are the only surviving oriental motifs on any of Matcham's interiors. The author Brian Mercer Walker describes the theatre as being "...by far the most notable surviving example of any theatre in the Untied Kingdom, decorated in [oriental] style."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup> The building was threatened with demolition in the 1970s but was saved by a campaign, led by the Ulster Architectural Society. As a result, it became the first listed building in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup> although it's grading has never been made public.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup></td>
<td>Listed</td>
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<dl>
<dd>Note: The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, <i>Frank Matcham & Co</i>, pp. 178–183.</dd>
</dl>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Scotland">Scotland</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theatres_designed_by_Frank_Matcham&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Scotland">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<th scope="col">Date</th>
<th scope="col">Theatre</th>
<th scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable">Photograph</th>
<th scope="col">Location</th>
<th scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable">Notes</th>
<th scope="col">Grade</th>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<dl>
<dd>Note: The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, <i>Frank Matcham & Co</i>, pp. 178–183.</dd>
</dl>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Wales">Wales</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theatres_designed_by_Frank_Matcham&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Wales">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<th scope="col">Date</th>
<th scope="col">Theatre</th>
<th scope="col" style="width:100px" class="unsortable">Photograph</th>
<th scope="col">Location</th>
<th scope="col" style="width:65%" class="unsortable">Notes</th>
<th scope="col">Grade</th>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td></td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td></td>
<td style="background-color: #87CEEB">II*</td>
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<dl>
<dd>Note: The source for Matcham's buildings, except as otherwise noted, is David Wilmore, <i>Frank Matcham & Co</i>, pp. 178–183.</dd>
</dl>
<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Theatres_designed_for_Moss_and_Stoll">Theatres designed for Moss and Stoll</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theatres_designed_by_Frank_Matcham&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Theatres designed for Moss and Stoll">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4>
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<th scope="col">Opening date</th>
<th scope="col">Theatre</th>
<th scope="col">Location</th>
<th scope="col">Proprietor</th>
<th scope="col">Seating capacity</th>
<th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes</th>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001892-03-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 March 1892</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td>Nicholson Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Edward_Moss" title="Edward Moss">Edward Moss</a></td>
<td>3,000</td>
<td>The first of the Moss Empire theatres. Destroyed by fire in 1911 after an illusion by <a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Neuberger" title="Sigmund Neuberger">The Great Lafayette</a> failed and caught the auditorium curtain alight.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001895-11-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 Nov 1895</span></th>
<td>Empire</td>
<td>Charles Street, <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Edward_Moss" title="Edward Moss">Edward Moss</a></td>
<td>2,500</td>
<td>Built in the <a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Italy" title="Architecture of Italy">Italian style</a>, the local journals called the exterior "a phantasmagoric piece of architecture" and the interior as being "a dream of loveliness and beauty".<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a></sup> Demolished in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001896-05-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 May 1896</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td>Queen Street, <a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Stoll" title="Oswald Stoll">Oswald Stoll</a></td>
<td>2,036</td>
<td>A replacement of a former Empire theatre. Destroyed by fire on 31 October 1899. Rebuilt by Matcham with an increased seating capacity. The building survived until 1961 when it was demolished.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001897-04-05-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">5 Apr 1897</span></th>
<td>Empire</td>
<td>Sauchiehall Street, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Edward_Moss" title="Edward Moss">Edward Moss</a> and the Glasgow Empire Co.</td>
<td>2,500</td>
<td>Built upon land once occupied by the Gaiety theatre, which was later renamed as the Glasgow Empire. Rebuilt by Matcham and became, in the 1930s, the second largest variety theatre in Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a></sup> Survived until 1963 when it was demolished.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a></sup></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001897-12-06-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">6 Dec 1897</span></th>
<td>Palace</td>
<td>Analby Road, <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull" title="Kingston upon Hull">Hull</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Edward_Moss" title="Edward Moss">Edward Moss</a> and the Liverpool, Leeds and Hull Empire Palaces Co.</td>
<td>1,800</td>
<td>The building adjoined a similar entertainment venue called Hengler's Circus. The Palace doubled as an amphitheatre. Enlarged in 1928 and closed 11 years later. Reopened in 1951 and renamed the Continental Palace in 1957. Closed for the final time in July 1965 and demolished the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001898-02-28-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">28 Feb 1898</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td>Sherwood Street, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Edward_Moss" title="Edward Moss">Edward Moss</a></td>
<td>2,500</td>
<td>Designed in the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_architecture" title="Chinese architecture">Oriental style</a> with Indian art in the auditorium.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a></sup> The theatre closed in June 1958 and was demolished 11 years later.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a></sup></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001898-08-29-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">29 Aug 1898</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Briggate,_Leeds" title="Briggate, Leeds">Briggate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Edward_Moss" title="Edward Moss">Edward Moss</a> and the Liverpool, Leeds and Hull Empire Palaces Co.</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Completed in the <a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_the_Netherlands" title="Architecture of the Netherlands">Flemish style</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-BMW161_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMW161-52">[52]</a></sup> the <i>Leeds Mercury</i> called the theatre the "handsomest of its kind in the country". They opined that Matcham's plans "[are] a triumph of artistic skill [with] the moulded work being very fine indeed".<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a></sup> The theatre closed on 25 February 1961 and was demolished the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-BMW161_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMW161-52">[52]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001899-07-03-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">3 Jul 1899</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace</td>
<td>Charles Street, <a href="/wiki/Newport,_Wales" title="Newport, Wales">Newport</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Stoll" title="Oswald Stoll">Oswald Stoll</a> and the Cardiff, Newport and Swansea Co.</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Built at a cost of £20,000 on the site of a former theatre. The walls were decorated using Japanese wall paper and the ceilings covered in <a href="/wiki/Lincrusta" title="Lincrusta">Lincrusta</a>. Long since demolished.<sup id="cite_ref-BMW163_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMW163-54">[54]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001899-07-31-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">31 Jul 1899</span></th>
<td>New Cross Empire</td>
<td>New Cross Road, <a href="/wiki/New_Cross" title="New Cross">New Cross</a>, London</td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Edward_Moss" title="Edward Moss">Edward Moss</a> and the London District Empire Palaces Ltd.</td>
<td>3,000</td>
<td><i>The Builder</i> described the interior as being in the <a href="/wiki/17th-century_French_art" title="17th-century French art">Louis XIV style</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a></sup> The building was demolished in the late-1950s in favour of the construction of a filling station.<span class="error mw-ext-cite-error" lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Cite error: A <code><ref></code> tag is missing the closing <code></ref></code> (see the <a href="/wiki/Help:Cite_errors/Cite_error_included_ref" title="Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref">help page</a>).</span></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001901-06-17-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">17 Jun 1901</span></th>
<td>Palace Theatre of Varieties</td>
<td>Belgrave Gate, Leicester</td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Stoll" title="Oswald Stoll">Oswald Stoll</a> and Moss Empires</td>
<td>2,750</td>
<td>Designed in <a href="/wiki/Moresque" title="Moresque">Moresque style</a>. The theatre featured a semi-circular glass and iron domed roof and internally, had rockeries, fountains and dripping wells. The building was demolished in 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-BMW161_52-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMW161-52">[52]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001903-08-17-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">17 Aug 1903</span></th>
<td><a href="/wiki/Shepherd%27s_Bush_Empire" title="Shepherd's Bush Empire">Shepherd's Bush Empire</a></td>
<td>Shepherd's Bush, <a href="/wiki/Hammersmith" title="Hammersmith">Hammersmith</a>, London</td>
<td>Oswald Stoll</td>
<td>1,638</td>
<td>Another of London's last surviving Matcham theatres, later a television studio.<sup id="cite_ref-BMW172_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMW172-56">[56]</a></sup> It features an Arts and Crafts influence which, according to <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, was unusual for Matcham. <sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a></sup> Largely altered from the original design.<sup id="cite_ref-BMW172_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMW172-56">[56]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001903-12-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 Dec 1903</span></th>
<td>Empire Palace,</td>
<td>Newgate Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne</td>
<td>Moss Empires</td>
<td>2,200</td>
<td>Matcham virtually rebuilt the Empire from an existing theatre that first opened in 1890. The theatre remained until its demolition in 1963 to make way for a central redevelopment.<sup id="cite_ref-BMW163_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMW163-54">[54]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001904-07-18-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">18 Jul 1904</span></th>
<td>Ardwick Empire</td>
<td>Hyde Road, <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a></td>
<td>Oswald Stoll and Moss Empires</td>
<td>3,000</td>
<td>Decorations by Felix De Jong; built as a variety theatre. The venue became a cinema in 1930 and five years later, was renamed as the New Manchester Hippodrome. Demolished in 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-BMW161_52-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMW161-52">[52]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001904-12-24-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">24 Dec 1904</span></th>
<td><a href="/wiki/London_Coliseum" title="London Coliseum">London Coliseum</a></td>
<td>St. Martin's Lane, <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, London</td>
<td>Oswald Stoll</td>
<td>2,939</td>
<td>Widely regarded as Matcham's masterpiece by architectural critics, the Coliseum was built as Oswald Stoll's headquarters. The Coliseum opened in 1904 and it was Stoll's aim to provide family entertainment in a lavish setting.<sup id="cite_ref-STAGE1_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STAGE1-58">[58]</a></sup> The facade was designed in the free Italian Renaissance style and the auditorium features a <a href="/wiki/Romanesque_architecture" title="Romanesque architecture">Romanesque theme</a>. The seating capacity exceeds those of the nearby <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane" title="Theatre Royal, Drury Lane">Theatre Royal, Drury Lane</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Opera_House" title="Royal Opera House">Royal Opera House</a>. The stage featured a revolutionary, £70,000 revolving stage which was the first of its kind in Great Briatain. This allowed for imaginative ideas, including the theatre's extravagant display celebrating <a href="/wiki/Epsom_Derby" title="Epsom Derby">Derby Day</a>, with guesting jockeys riding real horses, galloping against the moving revolve;<sup id="cite_ref-STAGE1_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STAGE1-58">[58]</a></sup> this was removed in 1976. The theatre received a £4 million refurbishment in 2004. Now home to the <a href="/wiki/English_National_Opera" title="English National Opera">English National Opera</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a></sup> The theatrical historian Brian Mercer Walker called it the "fruit of close collaboration and understanding between client and architect." He further noted: "Matcham's frequently noticed skill in planning is here matched by a different kind of wizardry. Few of his contemporaries could have made so memorable an architectural statement on so short a frontage in such an unpretentious thoroughfare. It is much more impressive than, for example, the neighbouring Garrick Theatre of 1889..."<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a></sup> According to the theatrical magazine <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stage" title="The Stage">The Stage</a></i>, Matcham's design provided "a handsome marble staircase, the landmark tower topped by a revolving globe and an impressive range of amenities, including spacious tea-rooms on each floor, lifts to the theatre's upper levels, lavishly decorated retiring rooms, a roof-garden with a glass-domed roof and an information bureau from which messages and telegrams could be sent and where doctors might register their whereabouts in case of emergencies."<sup id="cite_ref-STAGE1_58-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STAGE1-58">[58]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001904-12-26-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">26 Dec 1904</span></th>
<td>Hippodrome</td>
<td>Oxford Street, <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a></td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Stoll" title="Oswald Stoll">Oswald Stoll</a> and Moss Empires</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Built as a hippodrome variety theatre and opened on 26 December 1904 with a variety show and a water spectacle from the London Hippodrome called "Tally Ho!". It closed on 2 March 1935 and was demolished soon after. Rebuilt 7 months laterand named The Gaumont Theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001905-10-14-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">14 Oct 1905</span></th>
<td>Coliseum</td>
<td>Eglington Street, Glasgow</td>
<td>Moss Empires</td>
<td>2,700</td>
<td>The Coliseum started life as a variety theatre and featured two large balconies, painted panels on the ceiling, and a marble-framed It closed and reopened as a cinema in the early 1920s and started showing films full-time in 1925. It became the first venue in Glasgow to show a <a href="/wiki/Sound" title="Sound">talking picture</a> in January 1929. It closed as a cinema in 1980 and was used as a bingo hall from the late 80s until 2003. The Coliseum caught fire on 25 May 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001910-09-05-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">5 Sep 1910</span></th>
<td>Finsbury Park Empire</td>
<td>St Thomas's Road and Prah Road, <a href="/wiki/Finsbury_Park" title="Finsbury Park">Finsbury Park</a>, London</td>
<td>Moss Empires</td>
<td>2,000</td>
<td>Built as a variety theatre at a cost of £45,000, it closed in 1960 and was demolished five years later.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001911-10-04-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">4 Oct 1911</span></th>
<td>New Middlesex</td>
<td>Drury Lane, Holborn</td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Stoll" title="Oswald Stoll">Oswald Stoll</a>, J.L. Grayson, and the Middlesex Theatre of Varieties Ltd.</td>
<td>3,038</td>
<td>Built as a variety theatre on the site of the former Middlesex Music Hall, previously the Old Mogul Saloon, the New Middlesex was renamed in 1919 to the Winter Garden theatre. It was demolished in 1965. The site is now occupied by the New London Theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a></sup></td>
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<th scope="row"><span class="sortkey" style="display:none;speak:none">000000001912-09-21-0000</span><span style="white-space:nowrap">21 Sep 1912</span></th>
<td>Wood Green Empire</td>
<td>High Road, Wood Green, London</td>
<td><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Stoll" title="Oswald Stoll">Oswald Stoll</a></td>
<td>1,840</td>
<td>Matcham's last London theatre. It was leased by the BBC during the 1950s and 60s who televised variety shows there. It was closed and partially demolished in 1970. The frontage, including the entrance block, still remain.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a></sup></td>
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<dd>Note: The source for Matcham's theatres, except as otherwise noted, is Brian Mercer Walker, <i>Frank Matcham: Theatre Architect</i>, pp. 154–173.</dd>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Theatres_no_longer_since_Brian_Mercer_Walker_publication_-_No_longer_or_mostly_demolished">Theatres no longer since Brian Mercer Walker publication - No longer or mostly demolished</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theatres_designed_by_Frank_Matcham&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Theatres no longer since Brian Mercer Walker publication - No longer or mostly demolished">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<li>1889 - Theatre Royal, St Helens - Mercer Walker, p. 120</li>
<li>1892 - Empire Palace, Edinburgh - Mercer Walker, p. 179</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theatres_designed_by_Frank_Matcham&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<ol class="references">
<li id="cite_note-DW178-183-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DW178-183_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DW178-183_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilmore, pp. 178–183.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Growing Up On The English Riviera" by Gorel Garlick; Wilmore, p. 49.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 3.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-EARL92-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-EARL92_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, p. 92.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Earl, pp. 28–29.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-E&S117-118-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-E&S117-118_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Earl and Sell, pp. 117–118.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-E&S114-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-E&S114_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Earl and Sell, p. 114.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-E&S121-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-E&S121_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Earl and Sell, p. 121.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-E&S141-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-E&S141_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Earl and Sell, p. 141.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-E&S122-123-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-E&S122-123_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Earl and Sell, pp. 122–123.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-E&S145-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-E&S145_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Earl and Sell, p. 145.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 18.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256197">"Numbers 1-43 and Cross Arcade"</a>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 3 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-WDP10-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WDP10_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Mr Frank Matcham Dead", <i>Western Daily Press</i>, 19 May 1920, p.10.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-TAJ682-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-TAJ682_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Architect's Journal</i>, 26 May 1920, p. 682.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A Preface to Frank Matcham & Co., by Alan Bennett; Wilmore, p. 4.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-engh-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-engh_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/listed-buildings/">"Listed Buildings: Categories of listed buildings"</a>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 5 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 122.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-NHLE1280615-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1280615_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1280615_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1280615">Grand Theatre</a>, <i>National Heritage List for England</i>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 5 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, pp. 125–126.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-NHLE1258906-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1258906_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1258906_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1258906">Lucky Seven Bingo Club</a>, <i>National Heritage List for England</i>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 5 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 124.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-NHLE1065384-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1065384_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1065384_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1065384">Richmond Theatre</a>, <i>National Heritage List for England</i>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 5 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-NHLE1205810-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1205810_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1205810_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1205810">Tower Buildings</a>, <i>National Heritage List for England</i>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 5 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 127.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-HE1066287-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HE1066287_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HE1066287_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HE1066287_26-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1066287">Crown Public House the London Hippodrome Theatre</a>, <i>National Heritage List for England</i>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 13 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-BMW168-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-BMW168_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 168.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://committees.westminster.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=3682">Variation of Casino Premises Licence - The Hippodrome Casino, 10-14 Cranbourn Street, WC2"</a>, <a href="/wiki/Westminster_City_Council" title="Westminster City Council">Westminster City Council</a>, accessed 13 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-NHLE1256197-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1256197_29-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1256197_29-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1256197">Numbers 1-43 and Cross Arcade</a>, <i>National Heritage List for England</i>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 5 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 18.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-NHLE1255862-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1255862_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1255862_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1255862_31-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1255862">49 and 51, Vicar Lane; 2–24, King Edward Street; 115–120, Brigatte</a>, <i>National Heritage List for England</i>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 5 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-NHLE1226960-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1226960_32-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1226960_32-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1226960">The Hackney Empire</a>, <i>National Heritage List for England</i>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 5 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, pp. 102–103.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, pp. 104–105.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Matcham Office at Work" by John Earl; Wilmore, p. 105.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1226960">"The Hackney Empire"</a>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 24 September 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Walker, p. 52.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-NHLE1043618-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1043618_38-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1043618_38-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043618">"Devonshire Park Theatre"</a>, <i>National Heritage List for England</i>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 5 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-NHLE1315842-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1315842_39-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1315842_39-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NHLE1315842_39-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1315842">"Royal Hall"</a>, <i>National Heritage List for England</i>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, accessed 5 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, pp. 128–129.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.goh.co.uk/history-heritage">"History and Heritage"</a>, Grand Opera House official website, accessed 12 December 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 128.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/film/lost-edinburgh-the-empire-theatre-1-3001370">"Lost Edinburgh: The Empire Theatre"</a>, <i>The Scotsman</i>, accessed 25 September 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Quoted in Mercer Walker, p. 165.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 165.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 157.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collections/sta/Collections/empire/index.html">"Empire Theatre, Glasgow"</a>, Scottish Theatre Archive, University of Scotland, accessed 25 September 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 158.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 160.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Builder</i>, 12 March 1898, p. 12.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 164.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-BMW161-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BMW161_52-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BMW161_52-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BMW161_52-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BMW161_52-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 161.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Leeds Mercury</i>, 30 August 1898, p. 36.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-BMW163-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BMW163_54-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BMW163_54-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 163.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Builder</i>, 19 August 1899, p. 4.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-BMW172-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BMW172_56-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BMW172_56-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p.172.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358593">"BBC Television Theatre"</a>, Historic England, accessed 26 September 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-STAGE1-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-STAGE1_58-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-STAGE1_58-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-STAGE1_58-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="error mw-ext-cite-error" lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Cite error: The named reference <code>STAGE1</code> was invoked but never defined (see the <a href="/wiki/Help:Cite_errors/Cite_error_references_no_text" title="Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text">help page</a>).</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Earl and Sell, pp. 121–122.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 57.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 162.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8066723.stm">"Fire engulfs derelict bingo hall"</a>, BBC News, 25 May 2009, accessed 29 September 2017.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 167.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mercer Walker, p. 171.</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Earl and Sell, p. 149.</span></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Sources">Sources</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theatres_designed_by_Frank_Matcham&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Sources">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li><cite class="citation book">Baker, Richard Anthony (2014). <i>British Music Hall: An Illustrated History</i>. South Yorkshire: Penn & Sword History. <a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78383-118-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78383-118-0">978-1-78383-118-0</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Music+Hall%3A+An+Illustrated+History&rft.place=South+Yorkshire&rft.pub=Penn+%26+Sword+History&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1-78383-118-0&rft.aulast=Baker&rft.aufirst=Richard+Anthony&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATheatres+designed+by+Frank+Matcham" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;"> </span></span></li>
<li><cite class="citation book">Earl, John (2008). <i>British Theatres and Music Halls</i>. South Yorkshire: Shire Publications. <a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-74780-627-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-74780-627-1">978-0-74780-627-1</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Theatres+and+Music+Halls&rft.place=South+Yorkshire&rft.pub=Shire+Publications&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-74780-627-1&rft.aulast=Earl&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATheatres+designed+by+Frank+Matcham" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;"> </span></span></li>
<li><cite class="citation book">Earl, John; Sell, Michael (2000). <i>The Theatres Trust Guide to British Theatres 1750-1950</i>. London: A. & C. Black. <a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-71365-688-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-71365-688-6">978-0-71365-688-6</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Theatres+Trust+Guide+to+British+Theatres+1750-1950&rft.place=London&rft.pub=A.+%26+C.+Black&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-71365-688-6&rft.aulast=Earl&rft.aufirst=John&rft.au=Sell%2C+Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATheatres+designed+by+Frank+Matcham" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;"> </span></span></li>
<li><cite class="citation book">Kilburn, Mike (2002). <i>London's Theatres</i>. London: New Holland. <a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84330-069-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84330-069-4">978-1-84330-069-4</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=London%27s+Theatres&rft.place=London&rft.pub=New+Holland&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-1-84330-069-4&rft.aulast=Kilburn&rft.aufirst=Mike&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATheatres+designed+by+Frank+Matcham" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;"> </span></span></li>
<li><cite class="citation book">Mercer Walker, Brian (1980). <i>Frank Matcham: Theatre Architect</i>. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. <a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-95341-271-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-95341-271-6">978-0-95341-271-6</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Frank+Matcham%3A+Theatre+Architect&rft.place=Belfast&rft.pub=Blackstaff+Press&rft.date=1980&rft.isbn=978-0-95341-271-6&rft.aulast=Mercer+Walker&rft.aufirst=Brian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATheatres+designed+by+Frank+Matcham" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;"> </span></span></li>
<li><cite class="citation book">Wilmore, David (2008). <i>Frank Matcham & Co</i>. South Yorkshire: Theatreshire Books. <a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85640-231-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-85640-231-9">978-0-85640-231-9</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Frank+Matcham+%26+Co&rft.place=South+Yorkshire&rft.pub=Theatreshire+Books&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-85640-231-9&rft.aulast=Wilmore&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATheatres+designed+by+Frank+Matcham" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;"> </span></span></li>
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