Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Birmingham Music Hall

by John Weeks Moore

Birmingham Music Hall. This is the largest in England, being 140 feet long, 65 feet wide, and 65 feet high. It is capable of containing an audience of about 3000 persons. It has rectilineal walls, broken at intervals by pilasters, and is surmounted on all sides by a coving deeply groined, which terminates in the flat ceiling above. Two narrow galleries extend along the sides of the room, and are of greater depth across the end ; at the other end is placed the orchestral platform and choral seats, which plat-form is on the same plane with the lower gallery. The floor of the hall is level.