Gala Bingo Club
GALA BINGO CLUB, CASTLE GATES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271201
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Gala Bingo Club
- Statutory Address:
- GALA BINGO CLUB, CASTLE GATES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271201
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Gala Bingo Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- GALA BINGO CLUB, CASTLE GATES
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:
- GALA BINGO CLUB, CASTLE GATES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrewsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 49354 12886
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NW CASTLE GATES 653-1/11/788 (West side) Gala Bingo Club
II
Bingo club, formerly Granada Cinema. 1937. By Cecil Masey with interiors by Theodore Komisarjevsky. Brown brick and white tile with stone dressings and parapeted roof. Classical style. 2 and 3 storeys. Narrow tall frontispiece has 4 giant Corinthian columns in antis with pilasters either side all supporting an entablature. Blank attic with elaborate crowning cornice of acanthus leaves. 2-storey 4-window range of metal windows within portico. Glazed double doors on ground floor. INTERIOR: much original detailing survives. Foyer has Corinthian pilasters and modillion cornice, balustrading to balconies and engraved mirror tympana to arches. Auditorium has Corinthian aedicule leading to stage, with large decorated panels either side. These have balustrades surmounted by elaborate pierced screens and pilasters in between decorated with arabesques. Ceiling has shallow beam and coffering decoration in circle. Curving balcony.
Listing NGR: SJ4935412886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455417
- 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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