Former Adelphi Cinema
FORMER ADELPHI CINEMA, VICARAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247461
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Adelphi Cinema
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ADELPHI CINEMA, VICARAGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247461
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Adelphi Cinema
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER ADELPHI CINEMA, VICARAGE ROAD
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:
- FORMER ADELPHI CINEMA, VICARAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 37999 88957
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE VICARAGE ROAD 784-1/6/732 (West side) 21/04/95 Former Adelphi Cinema
II
Cinema, now bingo club. 1920, with late C20 alterations. Brick, partly rendered, with terracotta and faience tile front and hipped and gabled slate roof. Baroque Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, coped parapets, full width late C20 canopy. 2 storeys plus attics; 5 window range. In the centre, projecting triple bay defined by faience pilasters with dentilled cornices. Above, a squat square tower supported by volutes, with cornice and dome. The dome has 4 round-arched projections with oval windows, and is topped with a finial. In the centre, a round-arched coved recess lined with coloured tiles, with hoodmould and enriched double keystone, containing a Diocletian window with two 2-light casements below it. Below, 4 pairs of doors with lattice glazing bars and overlights. On either side, on the first floor, a 2-light casement with a cartouche in a panel below it. Above, a square window with lattice glazing bars. Below, a panel for posters. Flanking bays have on the first floor a round-arched blank panel with keystone, and below it, 3 small square windows. Above, a 3-light window with brick mullions and lattice glazing bars. Below, multiple glazed doors with overlights. INTERIOR: largely original, has auditorium with pilasters, segment-arched panelled ceiling and moulded proscenium arch with central crest flanked by torches. U-shaped gallery with latticework plaster front. Entrance lobby and landings have coved ceilings with enriched friezes, and glazed tile dadoes. Concrete stairs have cast-iron balustrades. Cinemas dating from this period, between 1918 and the introduction of sound in the early 1930s, are comparatively rare. Building vacant at time of survey.
Listing NGR: SK3799988957
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456943
- 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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