Britannia Music Hall, 109-121 Trongate, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 1977. Music hall. 1 related planning application.
Britannia Music Hall, 109-121 Trongate, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- dim-vault-amber
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1977
- Type
- Music hall
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gildard & MacFarlane architects, dated 1857 on frieze; rear staircase 1869, Hugh Barclay; further alterations to cinema usage 1904-10 by Boswell & McIntyre. 4-storey, 9-bay. Classical. Ashar. Exceptionally rare former music hall with important surviving interior.
PRINCIPAL (TRONGATE) ELEVATION: modern shop front to ground. 1st floor rusticated with vermiculated keystones. Openings round-arched with pilasters (banded at 1st floor, swagged to 2nd floor) dividing bays. Moulded archivolts. 3rd floor windows grouped 5-4-6 with centre group slightly advanced and pedimented. Decorated frieze and cornice over each floor, deep mutuled eaves cornice.
NEW WYND ELEVATION: 1st 2 bays advanced and detailed as principal elevation. Remaining bays ashlar.
Timber sash and case windows with plate-glass glazing. Fixed-pane plate-glass windows to 3rd floor. Slate roofs.
INTERIOR: notable survival of music hall with many exceptional features. Auditorium with U-plan timber gallery with bench seating supported by slender cast iron columns. Simple timber proscenium and high stage. Ceiling coombed with decorative plasterwork with flat main section with applied timber decoration in latticework pattern to centre.
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