Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671520

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90NW 183 93745 06064.

The Assembly Rooms were built 1820, architect Archibald Simpson; Music Hall added to the North end by James Matthews, 1858.

W A Brogden 1988.

Music Hall. Built in 1820 to the design of Archibald Simpson and originally known as the 'Assembly Rooms'. The frontage comprises six Ionic columns supporting a concert hall of classic style and has a giant Ionic porch. The main auditorium is a concert hall added in the classic style by James Matthews in 1858-9. The Round Room has Corinthian columns and a central oculus; the Square Room has anta order and a dome; the ballroom has a sementally-arched ceiling.

Renovated between August 1984 and May 1986.

(Newspaper and bibliographic references cited).

NMRS, MS/712/83.

Air photograph. Aberdeen, Music Hall and Golden Square: AAS/00/08/CT.

NMRS, MS/712/100.