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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 21:20:00

First opened in 1879 as a respectable alternative to the city's music halls, the Howard Assembly Room is a richly decorated concert hall tucked within the Leeds Grand Theatre complex on New Briggate. With its gilded, barrel-vaulted ceiling, leaded windows and prized acoustics, the room was praised in its early years for a warm, intimate character that still defines it today. Over the following century the space fell on harder times, serving as a cinema known as the Plaza and later as little mor...