Listed building outline

The Wallaw Cinema

Field Value Fact links
Reference 1031569 Facts
Prefix listed-building-outline Facts
Name The Wallaw Cinema Facts
Dataset Listed building outline no fact link
Organisation Northumberland County Council no fact link
Start date 1998-01-22 no fact link
End date no fact link
Entry date 1998-01-22 Facts
Typology geography no fact link
Geometry MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.507843 55.126791, -1.507873 55.126802, -1.508307 55.126713, -1.508364 55.126698, -1.508369 55.126682, -1.508195 55.126391, -1.507824 55.126464, -1.507837 55.126684, -1.507813 55.126685, -1.507819 55.126784, -1.507842 55.126783, -1.507843 55.126791), (-1.507842 55.126783, -1.507839 55.126729, -1.507841 55.126762, -1.507842 55.126783))) Facts
Point POINT (-1.50806 55.126602) Facts
Notes NZ3187SW BLYTH The Wallaw Cinema 1395/1/10002 II Cinema and Theatre. Opened as a cinema. 1937 by Percy Lindsay Browne, Son and Harding of Newcastle upon Tyne, the job architect most probably Charles Alfred Harding. Plasterwork hy Webster Davidson and Co. Ltd of Sunderland. Streamlined moderne lighting fixtures hy Devereux Moody and Co. Ltd of Newcastle. Moderne style in brick and cement render, with auditorium set back and ranged left at a ninety degree to the main facade. Entrance doors divided into 1 +2+1 rhythm with sheltering canopy. Three vertical windows at first floor level in cut brick surrounds with rendered and moulded sill and lintel; the whole fac:ade is surmounted by a rendered parapet with three main steppings and a central forward projection Three storey right return wall with central, symmetrically placed horizontal windows, a 'pylon' feature to the left with a narrow, triple-height window, terminating in an emergency stair tower to the right expressed with another triple-height window turning the rear wall. Four sets of original entrance doors lead to steps up to main foyer level. The steps are flanked by five handrails, the three middle rails with Art Deco styling. Double-height foyer with two symmetrical flights of stairs rising to a landing. Solid balustrades with central metal section over stalls entrance carry symmetrically positioned stylized 'W' (for Wallaw) . Three bands of plaster moulding in Moderne style on flank walls. Coved ceiling has central panel embellished with scalloping. Triple stage Art Deco pendant light in centre. Inner foyer entered through small lobby followed h an eccentric shaped space with a circular ceiling cove to suggest a rotunda. Both spaces have streamlined Moderne light fittings and an Art Deco grille to conceal the radiator. Original Moderne doors to inner foyer, Moderne mouldings on inner foyer ceiling, and similarly styled streamlined light fittings on the ceilings. Double-height auditorium arranged as raked floor stalls and stepped balcony with the rear stalls divided off to create two small auditoria. Rectangular proscenium with flanking Moderne pilasters (that to left with clock). All the lighting is indirect, from fibrous plaster coves. Principal and subsidiary coves in ceiling over balcony. Continuous streamlined Mode e plaster feature in middle cove accommodates ventilation ducts. Three vomitories in balcony with streamlined timber batten decoration. Original doors from foyer landing into balcony foyer. Balcony foyer enriched with Moderne decoration on ceiling and cornice, with a leaf and rosette pattern in relief plaster on the rounded wall cheeks at the vomitory entrances. Included as a rare example of a streamlined Moderne cinema of the 1930s which has a rich collection of original internal features and fixtures surviving intact. The practice established by Percy Lindsay Browne in 1911 was one of the most prolific designers of cinemas to be found in the north east, and this is understood to be their best surviving work. Source: Richard Gray, 'Cinemas in Britain', London, Lund Humphries, 1996, p.137 , Facts
Listed building 1031569 Facts

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