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Latitude: 53.8124 / 53°48'44"N
Longitude: -3.0507 / 3°3'2"W
OS Eastings: 330912
OS Northings: 435640
OS Grid: SD309356
Mapcode National: GBR ZKL.YG
Mapcode Global: WH858.3FJN
Plus Code: 9C5RRW6X+XP
Entry Name: Coral Bingo and Social Club (King Edward)
Listing Date: 20 October 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1072006
English Heritage Legacy ID: 183659
Also known as: Central Picture Theatre
Coral Bingo And Social Club
The Venue
ID on this website: 101072006
Location: Revoe, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1
County: Blackpool
Electoral Ward/Division: Talbot
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Blackpool
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Blackpool St John
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Cinema Nightclub Bingo hall
SD 33 NW BLACKPOOL CENTRAL DRIVE
2/3 Coral Bingo and Social Club
(King Edward)
II
Picture Theatre, dated 1913, now a bingo hall. Accrington brick with
stone-coloured dressings. Rectangular plan. A single-storey building
with barrel-vaulted roof giving a basically semicircular section to a
facade of 2 storeys. Ground floor level has been altered or concealed.
Above ground floor, symmetrical facade with central pedimented gable of
crude form, flanked by 3-sided banded pilasters, and between them a
Venetian window (now blocked), the panel above it filled with lettering
"CENTRAL PICTURE THEATRE" and foliated patterns in moulded terracotta;
gable boldly chequered in red and white, with date "1913" at apex. Large
bullseye window with archivolt each side of central bay, and banded pilaster
surmounted by octagonal drum and ball finial at each corner. Interior:
small foyer with decorated cornice (swags, etc.); auditorium with balcony;
moulded cornice with egg-and-dart decoration; ceiling braces have moulding
of crossed straps and interposed leaves and flowers; seating banks have
end-panels with moulded garlands. Projection room probably original, paybox
altered.
Listing NGR: SD3091235640
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