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Boscombe Hippodrome Royal Ballrooms

A Grade II Listed Building in Boscombe West, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.7267 / 50°43'36"N

Longitude: -1.8399 / 1°50'23"W

OS Eastings: 411399

OS Northings: 91910

OS Grid: SZ113919

Mapcode National: GBR XD7.0J

Mapcode Global: FRA 7715.11Y

Plus Code: 9C2WP5G6+M3

Entry Name: Boscombe Hippodrome Royal Ballrooms

Listing Date: 25 November 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1329395

English Heritage Legacy ID: 352107

Also known as: Grand Pavilion Theatre
Hippodrome
Boscombe Hippodrome
Opera House
The Boscombe Grand Pavilion Theatre
The Boscombe Hippodrome
The Royal Ballroom
The Academy
Grand Theatre and Pavilion
Grand Theatre
Hippodrome Boscombe
Hippodrome Bournemouth

ID on this website: 101329395

Location: Boscombe, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, BH1

County: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bournemouth

Traditional County: Hampshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Bournemouth St John the Evangelist, Boscombe

Church of England Diocese: Winchester

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Description


The following building shall be added:-
BOURNEMOUTH

SZ1191 CHRISTCHURCH ROAD,
Boscombe
768-0/22/10021 (North side)
Nos.568 -578 (Even)

Boscombe Hippodrome [Royal
Ballrooms]

GV II
Theatre. 1893-5, Lawson and Donkin for Archibald Beckett; altered in circa 1908. Red brick
with stone dressings; slate roofs. PLAN: Built as part of a development that included the
adjacent Royal Arcade [qv] and The Salisbury Hotel [demolished 1965]. Behind shops on
Christchurch Road there is a foyer, stairs and billiard hall over the shops and a large
auditorium with two U-shaped balconies, the lower of which has a promenade running
behind Dutch Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: South front facing Christchurch Road; 2
storeys. Ground storey shops with later fascias applied and central theatre entrance with
canopy. 2:3 bays above divided by pilasters and cornices and with tall plastered windows and
Dutch gables with urns and balustrade parapets between; the left 2 bays have 3-light
mullion-transom windows with segmental heads and carved stone panels and small attic
windows above; the right 3 bays have 3 tall mullion-transom windows with round heads,
the centre one foiled. INTERIOR: An unusual auditorium with the character of an earlier
music hall. Around the stalls is a shallow U-shaped balcony carried on iron columns with a
semi-circular end and straight sides, the balcony front an openwork iron balustrade with
acanthus leaf decoration. Tall thin iron columns rise from the front of the balcony to support
the ceiling with decorated openwork iron spandrels. A wide promenade runs around the
back of the balcony. Above the promenade, supported on another ring of columns, is a
second shallower balcony set back behind the arcade. The bench seating in the balconies
survives but the stall seats have been removed. The balconies originally ran straight up to the
proscenium wall, but in circa 1908 paired boxes were installed on either side in Baroque
plasterwork and the proscenium was rebuilt. From the foyer at the front staircases with
cast-iron balusters give access to the balconies and the large billiard hall over the shops.
SOURCES: Brereton,C. Curtains [inventory], published 1982. Mate,C.H. and Riddle,C.
Bournemouth 1810-1910 pp 155 and 212 Popham, D. and R. The Book of Bournemouth,
pp 84 and 108. Young, D. The Storey of Bournemouth, pp 149-150.


Listing NGR: SZ1139991910

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