Independent Chapel
INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386118
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Independent Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386118
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Independent Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, CHAPEL STREET
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:
- INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 82996 98567
Details
SALFORD
SJ8298NE CHAPEL STREET 949-1/19/44 (North side) 18/01/80 Independent Chapel (Formerly Listed as: CHAPEL STREET (North side) Rex Bingo (Former Salford Cinema))
II
Cinema, now Independent chapel. Dated 1915. Faience and roughcast render with late C20 brick wall to right-hand side. Half-hipped roof in Welsh slate. Plan comprises a rectangular auditorium behind a recessed entrance and lobby on left-hand corner. Externally in a Baroque style. The front elevation is expressed as 2 storeys. Central bay has broad rusticated pilasters at either side of 2 elaborately moulded circular windows, and flanked by a similar type of oval window in either side, all set in panels of roughcast. Above the central bay a segmental-arched pediment containing the moulded words 'Salford Cinema AD 1915' over a moulded segmental panel. Ground floor has doorways to centre and right-hand side with paired rectangular windows between, and main entrance set in the radiused left-hand corner behind a porch with 4 Ionic columns beneath a curved cornice on consoles. Above this a swagged frieze, elaborate balustrade and open cupola on 6 columns with decorated capitals. INTERIOR: much altered. The building is a significant example of early cinema architecture.
Listing NGR: SJ8299698567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471542
- 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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