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Latitude: 52.4164 / 52°24'59"N
Longitude: -4.0838 / 4°5'1"W
OS Eastings: 258374
OS Northings: 281868
OS Grid: SN583818
Mapcode National: GBR 8R.NYZ7
Mapcode Global: VH4FC.5JDF
Plus Code: 9C4QCW88+HF
Entry Name: Ceredigion Museum
Listing Date: 29 June 1987
Last Amended: 24 November 1987
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 10400
Building Class: Recreational
Also known as: Ceredigion Museum building
Phillip's Coliseum Theatre
Amgueddfa Ceredigion
Coliseum Cinema
ID on this website: 300010400
Location: Between Bath Street and Portland Street with shops stepped down to either side.
County: Ceredigion
Community: Aberystwyth
Community: Aberystwyth
Built-Up Area: Aberystwyth
Traditional County: Cardiganshire
Tagged with: Theatre Cinema Museum building
Dated 1904, by J Arthur Jones of Aberystwyth; contractor, E E Jenkins. Built for David Phillips as the main front to an entertainments hall with ground floor arcade, offices and stables; replaced the earlier Phillips Hall. Later became the Coliseum Cinema.
Edwardian/Queen Anne style; bull nosed rubble with terracotta dressings; 4 floor bracket cornice and third floor egg and dart cornice; bays divided by Ionic derived pilasters, fluted to top floor. Central pedimented gable with apex niche containing statue of Edward VII; lunette with keystone and dated cartouche to centre. Outer bays have 2-storey bowed oriels on keystones to semi-circular first floor with full height small pane windows; small pane sash windows to third floor and oriels. Ground floor retains half-glazed door entrances; modern shop-front inserted between. Similarly detailed side elevations to Bath Street and Portland Street. Three-storey, 3-windows; pediment to central second floor windows below arched and keystoned head. Shallow Phillips arcade with original Art Nouveau glazing to Bath Street, modern shop front to Portland Street.
The interior of the upper floors retains much of the original Coliseum cinema, now converted to museum use. Rectangular auditorium; 2 tier gallery with anthemion ornamented bowed fronts by Macfarlane and Co of Glasgow; cast-iron columns with Corinthian capitals and swagged friezes. Ribbed ceiling with plaster roundels; elliptical proscenium arch.
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