King's Theatre, 335 Bath Street, Glasgow

The King's Theatre, located at 335 Bath Street in Glasgow, was designed by Frank Matcham and built between 1903 and 1904 in the Edwardian Baroque style. It is an important theatre known for its outstanding interior, featuring polished red sandstone ashlar.

The Bath Street elevation consists of seven irregular bays, including a curving lower domed angle bay that faces Elmbank Street. The second and fifth bays are wider and are flanked by broad channelled pilasters adorned with medallions. The entrance is located in the second bay, with a dummy entrance in the fifth bay. Above these are semi-circular arches with recessed windows, and shallow bowed, pilastered arched tripartite windows capped with a balustrade. The design includes bold ball finials over the pilasters and recessed pediments behind the main body of the theatre. The entrance bays are flanked by narrower bays, while the two central bays feature large recessed, multi-pane first-floor windows and curved balconies, topped by a parapet with urns.

The Elmbank Street elevation is asymmetrical, with three bays on the left balanced by a central pedimented bay. The flanking bays have two arched openings at the second floor, which also contain recessed windows with balconies.

The theatre showcases a variety of multi-pane glazing patterns in its timber sash and case windows, as well as timber fixed pane and casement windows.

Inside, the foyer is marble lined with a coffered barrel-vaulted ceiling, and features pilasters leading to the stairway, along with a balcony supported by caryatids. The auditorium is richly decorated in a highly elaborate Baroque style with fibrous plaster work by McGilvray & Ferris. It includes three tiers of horseshoe balconies, with two boxed to the ground circle on each side featuring banded columns and pediments, and one box in the tier above. There are three shell niches on each side in the upper tier, and the proscenium arch is adorned with an escutcheon and cherubim, complemented by a twelve-panelled ceiling.