Odeon Cinema (to Rear of John Halle's Hall)
ODEON CINEMA (TO REAR OF JOHN HALLE'S HALL), NEW CANEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243555
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Odeon Cinema (to Rear of John Halle's Hall)
- Statutory Address:
- ODEON CINEMA (TO REAR OF JOHN HALLE'S HALL), NEW CANEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243555
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Odeon Cinema (to Rear of John Halle's Hall)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ODEON CINEMA (TO REAR OF JOHN HALLE'S HALL), NEW CANEL
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 (TO REAR OF JOHN HALLE'S HALL), NEW CANEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Salisbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 14486 29865
Details
1. NEW CANAL
1594 Odeon Cinema (to rear of John Halle's Hall)
SU 1429 NW 3/99A
II GV
2. CINEMA. 1930-31, by W E Trent, assisted by F F Tulley. Red brick external walls, corrugated asbestos roof on steel trusses to auditorium, asphalt elsewhere. Rectangular auditorium, with projection rooms rising to north and fly tower to south. Entered via Hall of John Halle (qv) and 28 Catherine Street (qv). Interior decoration in lavish tudor gothic style inspired by the need to enter via the C15 hall. The foyer has oak panelling and doorcasts, and vine scroll ornament in fibrous plaster to the downstanding ceiling beams. The auditorium ceiling is of fibrous plaster, the ribs and beams grained to imitate wood; there are painted scenes flanked by gothic arcading to bulkheads at two changes in level. The walls are plastered, lined out to frames. Flanking the 'tudor' proscenium arch are large openings with 'iron' (actually plaster) grilles, flanked by niches and surmounting doors set in elaborate gothic beamed ceiling below decorated like that in foyer. The cafe, above the foyer, is panelled in oak, with false timber framing above and a beamed fibrous plaster ceiling. The inner dining room (contrived between the floor of the circle and ceiling of stalls below, has a beamed ceiling with sloping soffits and tudor-arched alcoves at either end fitted with oak settles and fibrous plaster fireplaces - and painted overmantle signed F 'Barnes". Throughout public areas, doors and doorcases are of oak, with foliage decoration in the spandrels of the heads. Many original fittings survive, including 'medieval' chandeliers. In 1972-3 the stalls seats were removed, a wall built on the line of the circle balcony, and the space behind formed into two subsidiary auditoria, but with minimal alteration to the original fabric. As the programme produced for the opening on 7.9.1931 states, 'a more fitting environment for the romance portrayal on the screen would be difficult to find.'
Listing NGR: SU1448629865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447517
- 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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