Description

YORK

SE6051NE FOSSGATE
1112-1/17/338 (North East side)
24/06/83 Nos.19-22 (Consecutive)
and attached boundary wall

GV II

Electric Cinema; now shop: boundary wall attached to rear
building. 1911, incorporating late C19 building at rear;
remodelled 1957. Boundary wall medieval, C17, C18 and C19.
MATERIALS: cream-brown mottled brick in English garden wall
bond, part rendered, with cinema front of glazed tile and
faience; rear building of orange-cream mottled brick in
English garden wall bond, with lower courses of orange-red
brick: slate roofs, with brick stack to rear building.
EXTERIOR: full-height cinema front, of 3 unequal bays, treated
as form of Palladian arch in Ionic order. Central arch is
ribbed elliptical hemi-dome on columns with moulded bases on
tall pedestals, beneath moulded modillion cornice hood,
returned over flanking arches. Frieze above rises to segmental
pediment terminated by volutes and capped with enriched
moulded coping with ball and pedestal finial: frieze filled
with moulded mask and garlands and swags of fruit. Shopfront
behind cinema front has glazed double doors between arcaded
with plate glass windows.
Rear building: 2-storey, 3-window front to Black Horse
Passage: openings altered. Boundary wall attached to
north-west, approximately 4 metres high and 30 metres long.
INTERIOR: of shop: wall pilaster strips moulded with drops of
flowers and musical instruments beneath impost band and plain
frieze support moulded cornice. Ceiling panelled with flat
plaster ribs, some enriched with moulded fruits.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: boundary wall red brick on lower courses
of magnesian limestone.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Electric Cinema was the first cinema in
York. Boundary wall attached to rear building incorporates
remnants of former precinct wall of Carmelite Friary,
suppressed 1538.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 50).

Listing NGR: SE6057251769

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 19-22 Fossgate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26549138

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