Former Cinema

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SK54SE 646-1/4/148

NOTTINGHAM CHURCHFIELD LANE (West side) Mount Zion Millennium City Church

(Formerly listed as Capitol Bingo and Social Club)

II

Cinema, now social club. 1936-37. By Reginald Cooper. Red brick and reconstituted stone, painted. Roofs not visible behind coped parapet.

Entrance front, two storeys, has a cylindrical central projection with three renewed doors under a curving canopy. Above, a projecting central fin flanked by steel framed strip windows with ribbed heads, above, three horizontal ribs. To left, a rounded corner stair enclosure, with a steel framed first floor window. Blank right return has two prominent string courses.

INTERIOR has a largely original entrance hall with coved ceiling and concealed lighting. Semicircular central paybox and square mushroom column. To left, stairs to balcony, and at the rear, two renewed double doors. Auditorium retains most of its original features. Square proscenium with a roll moulded surround projecting forwards. Convex curved flanking walls with horizontal ribs and triple vertical striplights. Renewed double doors below. Auditorium ceiling has convex cornice and a crosswise slotted ventilator towards the front. In front of these, a deep cove and a ribbed ventilator. Over the balcony, a coved ceiling with two ribbed ventilators. Balcony has moulded front and to right, a rounded projecting box. To left, a staircase.

(Picture House (Cinema Theatre Association magazine): Allen Eyles: Reginald W Cooper: 1986-: 15-25).

Listing NGR: SK5512641090