Architect Frank Matcham (1854-1920) specialized in designing which kind of building?
Frank Matcham Matcham lived for his work, and unquestionably was pre-eminent as a theatrical and music hall architect." On 22 November 2007, Matcham was commemorated by a blue plaque at the site of his London home, 10 Haslemere Road, Hornsey. Notes References Frank Matcham Frank Matcham (22 November 1854 – 18 May 1920) was an English theatrical architect and designer. During his 40 year career, he was responsible for the design and construction of over 90 theatres and the redesigns and refurbishments of a further 80 throughout the United Kingdom. According to the dramatist, Alan Bennett, there was a Matcham theatre in
Frank Matcham and his wife, Elizabeth Lancaster (1830–1905). Charles Matcham moved his family from Newton Abbot to Union Street, Torquay, in 1857. He secured a job as a manager of a Brewery and a Malthouse. Frank was educated in Babbacombe, although it is not known at which school. He showed an early interest in architecture and became apprenticed at the age of 14 to a local architect called George Soudon Bridgeman. The apprenticeship lasted 18 months until Matcham was offered a job at a quantity surveyor's office in London in around 1868. Working in the capital afforded Matcham the benefit of being