Gala Bingo Club

GALA BINGO CLUB, CASTLE GATES

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1271201
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1995
Statutory Address:
GALA BINGO CLUB, CASTLE GATES
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1271201
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1995
Statutory Address 1:
GALA BINGO CLUB, CASTLE GATES

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

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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

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