"St Paul's is a former church built in 1829 that now provides a venue for a range of concerts, including the world renowned Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Converted from a church in 1980, this unusual concert hall seats 400 people and was designed by John Oates (an architect from neighbouring Halifax) and by local stonemason Joseph Kaye. St Paul's is conveniently located next to Huddersfield Ring Road on the University of Huddersfield Campus."
This renovated church is also the primary venue for the Huddersfield Music Society. According to the University of Huddersfield, the venue holds more than 70 concerts each year, including the yearly Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. By my reckoning I count at least 190 seats in the picture above, which gives us an impression of what certain seating capacities look like though you'll notice the university quotes a total capacity of 400.
Whilst there is little evidence of any new architectural interventions beyond its renovation, you can't help recognise that the spatial environment shares many of the same design constraints we are concerned with at the Church of the Nazarene e.g. Columns.
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A useful precedent. No doubt the raked seating allows more seats than arranging them all on one level. I also imagine it maximises the experience for the audience no matter where you are seated.
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