Former Savoy Picture House

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TA2609SE 699-1/21/77

GRIMSBY, VICTORIA STREET WEST (South side), Former Savoy Picture House, Nos.42-48 (Even)

(Formerly listed as Nos.42-48 (Even))

GV II

Cinema, now shop and restaurant. 1920 by Chadwick and Watson for Savoy Picture House Ltd. White faience to front, red brick to rear. Neo-classical style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 1:3:1 bays to Victoria Street, with outer bays breaking forward, and rounded corner to East St Mary's Gate where the 3-storey facade continues for 1 bay. Channelled rustication throughout. Victoria Street front has pair of wide plate-glass shop windows flanking a projecting rusticated entrance bay. Doorway in architrave with bracketed panel above containing a circular overlight with glazing bars beneath a moulded round-arched hood. Corner section has recessed doorway flanked by single narrower shop windows. Entablature at first-floor level. Upper section has recessed arcaded 3-bay centre with attached giant columns with rusticated blockwork bases, fluted necking and Ionic-type capitals. Panels between columns have block rustication, cross-windows to first floor, raised apron panels at second-floor level, round-arched windows to second floor with radial glazing bars and moulded arches with tall keystones supporting swags. Similar round-arched recessed window panels flanking the curved corner bay. Bay to far left has recessed doorway and cross-windows to first and second floors with raised apron panel between. Full entablature with dentilled and modillioned cornice, blocking course forming parapet with raised central panel. Hipped roof. Curved corner bay has a central raised panel containing single 2-light casements to first and second floors separated by a panel dated 1920, beneath a fluted frieze and cornice and a relief panel with lettering "SAVOY PICTURE HOUSE" flanked by wreaths. Above this, a pulvinated laurel leaf frieze and a half dome surmounted by a loosely-clad dancing female "flapper" with arms raised (formerly holding a tambourine). All windows have glazing bars. Front to East St Mary's Gate has 3-storey, single-bay section to left with faience facade and similar details to Victoria Street front. Remainder, of 2 and 3 storeys, 8-window range, has late C20 shop front to ground floor, plain red brick above with segmental-arched first-floor windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR: altered by later C20 shop conversions. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:

Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.13; Grimsby Planning Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: NO.13; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO.14).

Listing NGR: TA2688009336