Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NW CASTLE GATES 653-1/11/788 (West side) Gala Bingo Club

II

Bingo club, formerly Granada Cinema. 1937. By Cecil Masey with interiors by Theodore Komisarjevsky. Brown brick and white tile with stone dressings and parapeted roof. Classical style. 2 and 3 storeys. Narrow tall frontispiece has 4 giant Corinthian columns in antis with pilasters either side all supporting an entablature. Blank attic with elaborate crowning cornice of acanthus leaves. 2-storey 4-window range of metal windows within portico. Glazed double doors on ground floor. INTERIOR: much original detailing survives. Foyer has Corinthian pilasters and modillion cornice, balustrading to balconies and engraved mirror tympana to arches. Auditorium has Corinthian aedicule leading to stage, with large decorated panels either side. These have balustrades surmounted by elaborate pierced screens and pilasters in between decorated with arabesques. Ceiling has shallow beam and coffering decoration in circle. Curving balcony.

Listing NGR: SJ4935412886

External Links

• Wikidata Q31941921

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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