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Tatton Cinema

A Grade II Listed Building in Sale, Trafford

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Latitude: 53.4254 / 53°25'31"N

Longitude: -2.3267 / 2°19'35"W

OS Eastings: 378390

OS Northings: 392113

OS Grid: SJ783921

Mapcode National: GBR DX6T.2T

Mapcode Global: WH98P.75BC

Plus Code: 9C5VCMGF+48

Entry Name: Tatton Cinema

Listing Date: 13 November 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1084309

English Heritage Legacy ID: 358732

Also known as: Odeon Sale

ID on this website: 101084309

Location: Sale, Trafford, Greater Manchester, M33

County: Trafford

Electoral Ward/Division: Ashton upon Mersey

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sale

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester

Church of England Parish: Ashton-upon-Mersey St Mary Magdalene

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description


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SJ 79 SE TRAFFORD WASHWAY ROAD

3/200 Tatton Cinema II 2.

Cinema. 1933 by Joseph Gomersall of Drury and Gomersall. Brick and rendering, hipped Welsh slate roof with tiled ridge to front block, not visible from street, felted auditorium. Neo-Egyptian style. Impressive frontage with full height pylons flanking the entrance. Above the entrance are four columns with lotus capitals which once carried the name PYRAMID and the clock, both now gone. The pylons have plain shop windows below and tall narrow windows with projecting cornices above. The whole gives the impression of a gateway at Thebes in a Hollywood Biblical epic.

Interior: Complete and little altered Egyptian decorative scheme, the detail apparently taken from Banister-Fletcher. Foyer with terazzo floor and compartmented ceiling, staircase, upper foyer with balcony, ballroom over front foyer. All these are complete with their original decoration. The auditorium is also unchanged apart from lining the walls and ceiling with acoustic tiles. Wall decoration and light fittings including central chandelier all complete. The ceiling has triple friezes which go right round, so the screen is framed partly by them and by decorated jambs, i.e. there is no proscenium arch.

A remarkably complete and never divided cinema in the rare Egyptian idiom.

Listing NGR: SJ7839092113

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