Editing Buxton (section)

=== Other architecture ===
Buxton Opera House, designed by [[Frank Matcham]] in 1903, is the highest opera-house site in the country. Matcham, a theatre architect, was responsible for several [[London]] theatres, including the [[London Palladium]], the [[London Coliseum]] and the [[Hackney Empire]]. Opposite is an original [[Pillar box#Penfolds|Penfold]] octagonal post box. The opera house is attached to the Pavilion Gardens, Octagonal Hall (built in 1875) and the smaller [[Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton|Pavilion Arts Centre]] (previously The Hippodrome and the Playhouse Theatre.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/heritage-open-days-raise-curtain-history-buxton-stage-767369 |title=Heritage Open Days to raise curtain on history of Buxton stage |newspaper=Buxton Advertiser |date=3 September 2016 |language=en |access-date=22 February 2020}}</ref>). [[Buxton Pavilion Gardens]], designed by [[Edward Milner]], contain 93,000 m<sup>2</sup> of gardens and ponds and were opened in 1871. These form a Grade II* listed public park of Special Historic Interest. Milner's design was a development of [[Joseph Paxton]]'s landscape for the Serpentine Walks in the 1830s.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1000675 |desc=Pavilion Gardens, Buxton |grade=II* |access-date=21 January 2020 |fewer-links=yes}}</ref>

[[File:Palace Hotel 201307 042.jpg|thumb|Palace Hotel]]
The 122-room [[Palace Hotel, Buxton|Palace Hotel]], also designed by Currey and built in 1868, is a prominent feature of the Buxton skyline on the hill above the railway station.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britanniahotels.com/hotels/palace-hotel-buxton/history|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022094129/http://www.pumahotels.co.uk/hotels/buxton-palace-hotel-derbyshire/ |url-status=dead |title=Palace Hotel Buxton &#124; Britannia Hotels |archive-date=22 October 2013 |website=www.britanniahotels.com}}</ref>

[[File:Corbar Cross Buxton 2008.JPG|left|thumb|Corbar Cross<ref name=NewCross/><ref group="nb">This is a photo of the cross before it was cut down in 2010. It has since been restored.</ref>]]
The town is overlooked by [[Grin Low]] hill, 1,441 feet (439 m) above sea level, and by Grinlow Tower (locally also called [[Solomon's Temple, Buxton|Solomon's Temple]]), a two-storey granite, crooked, crenelated folly built in 1834 by Solomon Mycock to provide work for local unemployed, and restored in 1996 after lengthy closure. In the other direction, on [[Corbar Hill]], 1,433 feet (437 m) above sea level, is the tall wooden Corbar Cross. Originally given to the [[Catholic Church]] by the Duke of Devonshire in 1950 to mark Holy Year, it was replaced in the 1980s. In 2010, during a visit of [[Pope Benedict XVI]] to the UK, it was cut down as a protest against a long history of child abuse at the Catholic St Williams School in [[Market Weighton]], Yorkshire.<ref name=Cut>{{cite news |url=http://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/symbol_of_suffering_1_1607702 |title=Symbol of Suffering |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925213527/http://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/symbol_of_suffering_1_1607702 |archive-date=25 September 2010 |newspaper=[[Buxton Advertiser]] |date=23 September 2010}}</ref> The Buxton ecumenical group Churches Together brought in several benefactors to replace the cross with a smaller one in May 2011.<ref name=NewCross>{{cite news |url=http://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/corbar_cross_rises_again_1_3394465 |title=Corbar cross rises again |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004110236/http://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/corbar_cross_rises_again_1_3394465 |archive-date=4 October 2011 |newspaper=[[Buxton Advertiser]] |date=20 May 2011}}</ref>

Many [[pubs and inns in Buxton]] are listed buildings reflecting the historic character of the town,<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |url=https://www.highpeak.gov.uk/media/220/Buxton-area-character-appraisal-adopted-April-2007/pdf/HP_CAA.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610083103/https://www.highpeak.gov.uk/media/220/Buxton-area-character-appraisal-adopted-April-2007/pdf/HP_CAA.pdf |archive-date=10 June 2020 |url-status=live |title=BUXTON CONSERVATION AREAS Character Appraisal |date=April 2007 |website=High Peak Borough Council|access-date=1 April 2020}}</ref> although many buildings have been demolished. [[Lost buildings of Buxton]] include grand spa hotels, the Midland Railway station, the Picture House cinema and Cavendish Girls' Grammar School.