Odeon Cinema

SJ 8847, 613-1/8/53

STOKE ON TRENT, HANLEY, Piccadilly (south-east side)

Odeon Cinema

30/11/89

II*

Cinema. Built 1929. By W. E. Trent for Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Limited. Steel frame clad in brick and faience, roof not seen. Plan has auditorium with circle and theatre fly tower to rear of entrance foyer and first-floor restaurant facing Piccadilly. Art Deco style. Two-storey faience-clad elevation to Piccadilly with masks of comedy and tragedy and five-light first-floor window with original glazing above two sets of six double doors with original etched glazing set in revealed architrave. Elevations to Pall Mall and Cheapside in Italianate style with faience rusticated ground floor, "PCT" in cartouches and original name, "The Regent" in faience signs.

INTERIOR: entrance in Piccadilly leads to large foyer with coffered ceiling, moulded pilasters to enriched cornice and original light fittings. Stairs lead via four etched glass doors to large circle foyer with coved plaster ceiling and pilasters. Auditorium in lavish Art Deco style has stalls and circle: square proscenium arch with moulded plasterwork flanked by elaborate grilles for former organ. Orchestra pit. Circle supported to sides on square moulded piers that continue to ceiling with simple capitals and uplighters. Moulded balcony front stepped to sides. Central ceiling dome with ribbed and "v-shaped" mouldings. Coffered ceiling over rear circle with original light fittings.

Included as a late 1920s cinema belonging to historically important Provincial Cinematograph Theatre Circuit, who pioneered the "super cinema" along American lines in Britain.

Listing NGR: SJ8825447476