New Victoria Theatre

NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD SW1

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1066085
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1972
Statutory Address:
NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD SW1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1066085
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1972
Statutory Address 1:
NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD SW1
Statutory Address 2:
NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, WILTON ROAD SW1

Location

Statutory Address:
NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD SW1
Statutory Address:
NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, WILTON ROAD SW1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 29035 79039

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/07/2015


TQ 2979 SW
99/13


CITY OF WESTMINSTER,
WILTON ROAD, SW1
New Victoria Theatre

28.6.72

GV II*

Theatre, formerly New Victoria Cinema. 1929 by E Wamsley Lewis and W E Trent. Concrete slab facing; roof not visible. Long facade with entrance to left; 5 storey 4-window range to right; blind to rest of elevation. Channelling to ground floor with fluted granite pilasters. Entrance flanked by black marble polygonal piers which rise to parapet. Low relief frieze with plaques to either side of entrance. Plate glass doors, chrome trimmed. Cantilevered canopy. Vertical fluting to concrete above entrance. Elevation to right of entrance divided by projecting horizontal bands. Vertical fluting to parapet. Similar elevation to Vauxhall Bridge Road. Elaborate original interior decoration, with pilasters rising up and spreading out into "fountains" with overlapping layers and concealed lighting; original fittings, reliefs, etc. Cathedrals of the Movies, David Atwell. London Vol I, N Pevsner.

Listing NGR: TQ2903579039

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London I - The Cities of London and Westminster, (1973)
Atwell, D, Cathedral of the Movies: A History of British Cinemas and their Audiences, (1980)

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