Odeon Cinema
ODEON CINEMA, PICCADILLY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195837
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Odeon Cinema
- Statutory Address:
- ODEON CINEMA, PICCADILLY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195837
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Odeon Cinema
- Statutory Address 1:
- ODEON CINEMA, PICCADILLY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ODEON CINEMA, PICCADILLY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88254 47476
Details
SJ 8847, 613-1/8/53
STOKE ON TRENT,
HANLEY,
Piccadilly (south-east side)
Odeon Cinema
30/11/89
II*
Cinema. Built 1929. By W. E. Trent for Provincial Cinematograph
Theatres Limited. Steel frame clad in brick and faience, roof
not seen.
Plan has auditorium with circle and theatre fly tower to rear
of entrance foyer and first-floor restaurant facing
Piccadilly. Art Deco style.
Two-storey faience-clad elevation to Piccadilly with masks of
comedy and tragedy and five-light first-floor window with
original glazing above two sets of six double doors with
original etched glazing set in revealed architrave.
Elevations to Pall Mall and Cheapside in Italianate style with
faience rusticated ground floor, "PCT" in cartouches and
original name, "The Regent" in faience signs.
INTERIOR: entrance in Piccadilly leads to large foyer with
coffered ceiling, moulded pilasters to enriched cornice and
original light fittings. Stairs lead via four etched glass doors
to large circle foyer with coved plaster ceiling and
pilasters.
Auditorium in lavish Art Deco style has stalls and circle:
square proscenium arch with moulded plasterwork flanked by
elaborate grilles for former organ. Orchestra pit. Circle
supported to sides on square moulded piers that continue to
ceiling with simple capitals and uplighters. Moulded balcony
front stepped to sides. Central ceiling dome with ribbed and
"v-shaped" mouldings. Coffered ceiling over rear circle with
original light fittings.
Included as a late 1920s cinema belonging to historically
important Provincial Cinematograph Theatre Circuit, who
pioneered the "super cinema" along American lines in Britain.
Listing NGR: SJ8825447476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384465
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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