GRAND CINEMA

GRAND CINEMA, POOLE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385095
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:: GRAND CINEMA
Statutory Address:: GRAND CINEMA, POOLE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385095
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:: GRAND CINEMA
Statutory Address 1:: GRAND CINEMA, POOLE ROAD

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:: GRAND CINEMA, POOLE ROAD

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

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ 07142 91454

Details

BOURNEMOUTH

SZ0791 POOLE ROAD 768/9/10055 Westbourne 05-OCT-00 (North side) Grand Cinema

II

Former cinema, constructed in 1922. Rendered brick, part steel frame. Steeply pitched slate roof over the auditorium but the foyer roof cannot be seen. Brick return and rear walls. Broad, rectangular double-height hall with narrow rear balcony and small foyer.

EXTERIOR: Neo-classical two-storey five-bay rendered principal facade, rising to a third storey over the centre bay. The entrance is in the centre bay, the others being filled by shop units. A canopy runs the length of the facade, the central section rising in segmental form. In the four outer bays of the first floor there are triple-light windows with plate-glass sashes. The central bay breaks forward and has three sets of smaller paired windows, again with sashes containing plate-glass. The entire first floor has channelled rustication. Full entablature with panels of cruciform ornament in the parapet. The attic storey has three sets of similarly glazed paired windows and is surmounted by a broken pediment flanked by funerary urns with, at the summit, a plinth supporting a figurative sculpture in female form. There is original lettering in the pediment: THE GRAND CINEMA; further old lettering below the attic windows: GRAND. Three steps up to entrance.

INTERIOR: A foyer leads to a rectangular double-height auditorium in which the sides, over a dado, are divided into bays by pilasters. In each bay there is a panel containing late twentieth-century paintings of mountain scenes, a view of Rome, a copy of `Boulter's Lock on the River Thames' etc. Embellished frieze, above which is a complex cornice. Barrel ceiling divided by curving members into sections in which are roundels. Wide and elaborately ornamented proscenium, over which is an entablature and tablet, the latter obscured by a late twentieth-century panel representing galleons at sea. Stage blocked off for bingo use. Straight-fronted balcony but with opulent decoration in the form of medallions and scrolls.

ANALYSIS: An early `super cinema' from the 1920s, having an unspoilt facade, unaltered plan and much surviving internal decoration. It has been a bingo club since c.1977.

SOURCES: Julia Courtney, Easter Visit to Bournemouth and Dorset, report of a Cinema Theatre Association tour, CTA Bulletin, Vol 26, No 5, September-October, 1992, page 7. Allen Eyles, ABC The First Name in Entertainment, Cinema Theatre Association, Burgess Hill, 1993, pages 14 and 157. Brian Hornsey, Ninety Years of Cinema in Bournemouth, Fuchsiaprint, Stamford, Lincolnshire, pages 5 and 7.

Listing NGR: SZ0714291454

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Legacy System number:: 485557
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Eyles, A, ABC. The First Name in Entertainment, (1993), 14, 157
Hornsey, B, Ninety Years of Cinema in Bournemouth5, 7
Courtney, J, 'CTA Bulletin' in 26, (1992), 7

Legal

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