ABC CINEMA (FORMERLY FORUM CINEMA)

ABC CINEMA (FORMERLY FORUM CINEMA), LIME STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208090
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1981
List Entry Name:: ABC CINEMA (FORMERLY FORUM CINEMA)
Statutory Address:: ABC CINEMA (FORMERLY FORUM CINEMA), LIME STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208090
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1981
List Entry Name:: ABC CINEMA (FORMERLY FORUM CINEMA)
Statutory Address 1:: ABC CINEMA (FORMERLY FORUM CINEMA), LIME STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ABC CINEMA (FORMERLY FORUM CINEMA), LIME STREET

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

District:: Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 34994 90376

Details

SJ 3490 SE LIME STREET SJ 3590 SW L1

53/690 ABC Cinema 54/690 (Formerly Forum 19.3.81 Cinema)

- II

Cinema. c.1930, by A. E. Shennan. On rounded corner with Elliot Street. Faced in Portland stone. 3-storey height. Vertical metal windows grouped in twos and threes both horizontally and vertically and set in panels. The main group over the entrance on the corner has pilaster motifs between the window and is surmounted by a panel with echelon motifs between the window and is surmounted by a panel with echelon motifs at the upper corners, above which is plinth for flagstaff breaking otherwise continuous parapet. The entrance has been remodelled in mosaic c.1970, losing the canopy. The auditorium has splay sides and gallery with concave front. Square proscenium arch within another with large vertical flutes between and geometricised floral band round inner one. Each side is very tall niche with fountain motif on interior cupolas. Geometricised rosette in centre of main, flat ceiling and quasi-pilasters to wall panelling. Rear recess with oval saucer dome. Listed for the interior.

Listing NGR: SJ3499490376

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Legacy System number:: 359024
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.