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Frank Matcham Architect : Architecture

Theatre Buildings in England + Scotland, UK – Building Information + News

Frank Matcham – Key Projects

Key Frank Matcham Theatres, alphabetical:

Hackney Empire – former Music Hall, Northeast London, England, UK
Date built: 1901
Hackney Empire Redevelopment, London, England, UK
Date built: 2001-04
Renewal design by Tim Ronalds Architects

photo © Nick Weall

His Majestys Theatre, Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, Scotland
Date built: 1906

photo © Muriel Welch
His Majestys Theatre Aberdeen : Grade A listed

London Coliseum, St Martin’s Lane, Covent Garden, London, England, UK
Date built: 1904
English National Opera venue

London Coliseum Redevelopment, St Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4ES, England, UK
Date built: 2001-04
Design: Arts Team @ RHWL

photo © Adrian Welch
£41m approximate building construction cost. This Arts facility has been home to the English National Opera since 1968.
This theatre located at St Martin’s Lane, Westminster, was built as one of London’s largest and most luxurious “family” variety theatres. It opened in 1904 as the London Coliseum Theatre of Varieties. It was designed for the impresario Oswald Stoll.

Victoria Palace, Victoria, Southwest London, England, UK
Date built: 1911
Design renewal from 2008: Arts Team @ RHWL

image courtesy of architects
Victoria Palace Building in London
Victoria Palace has in 2008 submitted an application for permission to make significant improvements within the existing theatre, to build a new and extended stagehouse incorporating a six metre strip of land at the rear of the stage, and to provide two passenger lifts adjacent to the front-of-house facilities (also to be extended and improved) at the side of the theatre.

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Location: Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK

Frank Matcham Practice Information

Architect office was based in England

This prolific British architect designed around 80 theatre buildings.

Born in 1854 – died in 1920.

An English theatrical architect and designer. He was known for his designs of many British theatres including those of the Moss Empires group and in London the Hackney Empire (1901); the London Coliseum (1904); the London Palladium (1910) and the Victoria Palace (1911).

Born in Newton Abbot, Devon, Matcham was apprenticed to the architect, George Sondon Bridgeman. He later moved to London where he joined the architectural practice of Jethro Robinson, who was at that time consulting theatre architect to the Lord Chamberlain’s office.

He completed his first solo design of the Elephant and Castle theatre which opened in June 1879. Between 1890 and 1915, Matcham helped train, Bertie Crewe and W.G.R. Sprague, and all three were responsible for the design and construction of over 200 theatres and variety palaces in the United Kingdom.

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