Frank Matcham and Company, theatre architects: records 1881-1972

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Frank Matcham and Company, theatre architects: records 1881-1972

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V & A Department of Theatre and Performance

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Matcham, Frank, 1854-1920

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E. Winglfield Bowles

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Frank Matcham and Company

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Francis (Frank) Matcham was one of the most prolific theatre architects of all time. Born in Devon in 1854, he was apprenticed to a local architect and to a quantity surveyor in London. In the 1870s he joined the firm of Jethro Thomas Robinson, theatre architectural adviser to the Lord Chamberlain, and subsequently married his employer's daughter. In 1878 he took over the practice on Robinson's death. From 1879 to 1912 Matcham built or rebuilt over 150 theatres across Br...

Walter Jones and Sons

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