TYNESIDE CINEMA

TYNESIDE CINEMA, 10-12, PILGRIM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385094
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:: TYNESIDE CINEMA
Statutory Address:: TYNESIDE CINEMA, 10-12, PILGRIM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385094
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:: TYNESIDE CINEMA
Statutory Address 1:: TYNESIDE CINEMA, 10-12, PILGRIM STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TYNESIDE CINEMA, 10-12, PILGRIM STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 24925 64429

Details

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2646SE PILGRIM STREET 1833/20/10091 10-12 05-OCT-00 Tyneside Cinema

GV II

Also Known As: News Theatre, 10-12, PILGRIM STREET

Cinema. Opened as the News Theatre in 1937 to the designs of George Bell, of Dixon and Bell of Newcastle. Brick and steel frame construction, clad in white glazed tiles. Roof not seen. Concealed behind parade of shops, also by Bell, which incorporates original entrance. Now entered from side, into small entrance foyer, when staircase leads to double-height main auditorium with balcony, cinema cafe, offices and secondary screen.

The cinema is concealed down side elevation, and reached through glazed doors. The small entrance foyer has elaborate fibrous plaster Art Deco mouldings on ceiling, cornices and on pilasters surrounding stairwell. Staircase balustrades in similar style. Similar decoration up to second floor level with the same balustrades continuing to third floor. Triple-shouldered arches over entrances to stairs and stairwell apertures. Rectangular double-level auditorium arranged as stalls and balcony. Stalls in semi-basement entered by stairs from foyer, balcony approached from first floor. Straight balcony front, with acoustic fluted decoration. Balcony extends as `legs' to meet proscenium wall. Proscenium of superimposed mouldings with rounded profiles interrupted at sides by three relief bands decorated with rosettes. Side splays embellished with vertical Art Deco panels of pierced fibrous plaster standing on plinths with bands of scrolling Acanthus containing rosettes, below which are dwarf balconies (these may originally have been designed as giant jardinieres, ie. intended for plants) with metal balustrades designed in the form of interlaced circles. Horizontal banding on walls. Square lighting cove in main ceiling; fibrous plaster panels in subsidiary ceilings at sides. Two columns in rear balcony with dish uplighter sconces ultimately derived from the Grosses Schauspielhaus, Berlin, of 1919 by Hans Poelzig. Back wall of balcony inset with sound absorbent panels. Three fibrous plaster panels in rear of balcony soffit.

Cafe on second floor above auditorium with Art Deco pilasters and entrance corridor with sumptuous cornice and ceiling decoration. Second auditorium created in roof space above cafe of no decorative interest.

ANALYSIS: The news cinema was a type of cinema particularly popular in the late 1930s, where newsreels, topical interest films and cartoons were shown. They formed an invaluable function in disseminating information in the days before television, and these small halls became a feature of major city centres and principal railway stations. Few survive in any form. This is the finest surviving purpose-built newsreel cinema in Britain, incorporating a rare example of a fine cinema cafe.

SOURCES: Frank Manders, Cinemas of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne Libraries and Arts, 1991, pp.101-3 Richard Gray, Cinemas in Britain, London, Lund Humphries, 1996, pp.121, 139

Listing NGR: NZ2492564429

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 485556
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gray, R, Cinemas in Britain: One Hundred Years of Cinema Architecture, (1996), 121, 139
Manders, F, Cinemas of Newcastle, (1991), 101-3

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.