Opera House, Quay Street, Manchester
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Opera House, Quay Street, Manchester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Jun 2011
Not sure about the colour scheme, but full marks for effusiveness. Pevsner calls it "appropriately theatrical". It was built as the New Theatre, 1912, designed by Richardson & Gill with Farquarson. A pediment encompasses virtually the whole front, below which is a fine relief, "The Dawn of the Heroic Age", by John Tanner & Son. The whole facade is rusticated, the joints picked out in orange. Grade II listed.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.47873
Longitude
-2.251439