Description

The following building shall be added to the list:-

NEWHAM
TQ48 NW HIGH STREET NORTH,
MANOR PARK
(West side)

251-/2/10009 Coronation Cinema, now
snooker hall

GV II

Cinema, now snooker hall. 1921 by Clifford Aish. Rendered brick with some steel
framing, roof not seen. Original plan a long, narrow, rectangular hall with entry under
first floor balcony at one end reached by staircase opposite entrance; the upper parts now
boxed in by partitions and false ceiling and not used. Archaic but elaborate facade of nine
bays flanked by broader end bays, each denoted by paired pilasters to upper levels over
blind ground-floors with rusticated surrounds to exit doors: the central bays with paired
Ionic pilasters and alternate blind oeil-de-boeuf motif, the right-hand end pavilion with
original sign 'CORONATION', paired Tuscan pilasters and first-floor oriel window to
foyer, projecting canopy (later reclad) and entrance. Cornice and high parapets.

Interior survives behind boarding and false ceiling inserted for snooker in 1985. Staircase
with gold-painted metal balustrading to lower flight leads to balcony. Nine-bay interior
retains original and unusually elaborate plaster decoration in panels, with alternating
squares and roundels, drops and swags, under barrel-vaulted ceiling that is also richly
embellished. Elaborate moulded cornice, and moulded surround also to proscenium.
Present floor raised to stage level to provide flat floor for snooker, otherwise the building
survives very well behind false walls.

Included as a remarkably elaborate cinema of a period when so-called 'super cinemas'
were being built for the first time: this example is lavish for its date and is a rare, hidden
survival.

Listing NGR: TQ4206185442

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Coronation Picture Palace official website
• Wikidata Q26544908

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas