Victoria Hall, Saltaire

[1] Saltaire Club and Institute[1] was designed in 1867 by the architectural firm of Lockwood and Mawson for the industrialist and philanthropist Sir Titus Salt.

[2] Victoria Hall is a T-plan, two-storey building with a basement, constructed in ashlar, with rock-faced stone and a Welsh slate roof.

Each side of the tower has a modillioned segmental pediment on an enriched entablature, supported by Corinthian columns, framing slender, round-arched windows.

The tympanum has a cartouche bearing the Salt family coat of arms, flanked by the carved figures of Art and Science by Thomas Milnes.

The modillioned cornice forms the base to a deep, panelled parapet decorated with rosettes and pedimented piers with grotesque winged beasts supporting iron finials.

At the front corners, on large square bases, are 2 sculpted lions by Thomas Milnes of London, representing War and Peace.

The console rises up on a lift on to the stage when in use for concerts, weddings and other events, classic and silent film presentations, dances and practice sessions.