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Coronation Cinema Now Snooker Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Manor Park, London

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Latitude: 51.55 / 51°32'59"N

Longitude: 0.0475 / 0°2'51"E

OS Eastings: 542061

OS Northings: 185442

OS Grid: TQ420854

Mapcode National: GBR ML.4MX

Mapcode Global: VHHNB.R9ZM

Plus Code: 9F32G2XX+X2

Entry Name: Coronation Cinema Now Snooker Hall

Listing Date: 27 February 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1253105

English Heritage Legacy ID: 436237

Also known as: Coronation Picture Palace, Manor Park
Coronation Cinema
Coronation Electric Theatre
New Coronation Cinema
Coronation Super Cinema
The Royal Regency

ID on this website: 101253105

Location: Manor Park, Newham, London, E12

County: London

District: Newham

Electoral Ward/Division: Manor Park

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Newham

Traditional County: Essex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Forest Gate All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford

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Description


The following building shall be added to the list:-

NEWHAM
TQ48 NW HIGH STREET NORTH,
MANOR PARK
(West side)

251-/2/10009 Coronation Cinema, now
snooker hall

GV II

Cinema, now snooker hall. 1921 by Clifford Aish. Rendered brick with some steel
framing, roof not seen. Original plan a long, narrow, rectangular hall with entry under
first floor balcony at one end reached by staircase opposite entrance; the upper parts now
boxed in by partitions and false ceiling and not used. Archaic but elaborate facade of nine
bays flanked by broader end bays, each denoted by paired pilasters to upper levels over
blind ground-floors with rusticated surrounds to exit doors: the central bays with paired
Ionic pilasters and alternate blind oeil-de-boeuf motif, the right-hand end pavilion with
original sign 'CORONATION', paired Tuscan pilasters and first-floor oriel window to
foyer, projecting canopy (later reclad) and entrance. Cornice and high parapets.

Interior survives behind boarding and false ceiling inserted for snooker in 1985. Staircase
with gold-painted metal balustrading to lower flight leads to balcony. Nine-bay interior
retains original and unusually elaborate plaster decoration in panels, with alternating
squares and roundels, drops and swags, under barrel-vaulted ceiling that is also richly
embellished. Elaborate moulded cornice, and moulded surround also to proscenium.
Present floor raised to stage level to provide flat floor for snooker, otherwise the building
survives very well behind false walls.

Included as a remarkably elaborate cinema of a period when so-called 'super cinemas'
were being built for the first time: this example is lavish for its date and is a rare, hidden
survival.


Listing NGR: TQ4206185442

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