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Odeon Cinema

A Grade II* Listed Building in Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0244 / 53°1'28"N

Longitude: -2.1766 / 2°10'35"W

OS Eastings: 388254

OS Northings: 347476

OS Grid: SJ882474

Mapcode National: GBR MLB.DB

Mapcode Global: WHBCT.J7RQ

Plus Code: 9C5V2RFF+Q9

Entry Name: Odeon Cinema

Listing Date: 30 November 1989

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1195837

English Heritage Legacy ID: 384465

Also known as: Super Cinema
Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
Gaumont

ID on this website: 101195837

Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST1

County: City of Stoke-on-Trent

Electoral Ward/Division: Etruria and Hanley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Stoke-on-Trent

Traditional County: Staffordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire

Church of England Parish: Hanley St Luke

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description


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

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