Regent Theatre
REGENT THEATRE, MOULSHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237377
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Regent Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- REGENT THEATRE, MOULSHAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237377
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Regent Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- REGENT THEATRE, MOULSHAM STREET
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:
- REGENT THEATRE, MOULSHAM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 70996 06483
Details
The following building shall be added:-
CHELMSFORD TL 7006 SE MOULSHAM STREET
5/228 Regent Theatre
II
Cinema. 1915 by F Burdett Ward; foyer altered in 1935 by A E Wiseman; converted to bingo and social club in mid 1970s. Brick, plastered at front; slate roofs. Circular on plan auditorium with balcony and boxes; stage and fly tower to south east and deep entrance foyers with manager's office and operator's room above. Rococo style. 2-storey 3-bay plastered front. Wide central bay with recessed entrance on ground floor with C20 fascia. Narrow flanking bays with curved open pediments and modillion cornices above, across first floor with wide recessed balcony above at centre with heavy balustrade and flanking rusticated bays with composite pilasters, festoons above round arch windows and entablatures with egg-and-dart mouldings to cornices. The central segmental pediment has been removed leaving only the tympanum decoration of an oval with plumes below and festoons and swags above, all in a high stepped parapet. At the rear there are small round windows in the auditorium and the fly tower. Interior: Richly decorated in Rococo style plasterwork including auditorium ceiling, and walls, balcony front and soffit, boxes and proscenium arch. Similar plasterwork in foyers; the stairs to balcony foyer rebuilt in 1935 has wrought iron balustrade. The seating in the auditorium has been removed. Sources: Architect's drawings submitted to Borough of Chelmsford 1914.
Listing NGR: TL7099606483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352619
- 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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