Description

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TA2609SE
699-1/21/77

GRIMSBY,
VICTORIA STREET WEST (South side),
Former Savoy Picture House, Nos.42-48 (Even)

(Formerly listed as Nos.42-48 (Even))

GV II

Cinema, now shop and restaurant. 1920 by Chadwick and Watson
for Savoy Picture House Ltd. White faience to front, red brick
to rear. Neo-classical style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 1:3:1 bays to Victoria Street, with outer
bays breaking forward, and rounded corner to East St Mary's
Gate where the 3-storey facade continues for 1 bay. Channelled
rustication throughout.
Victoria Street front has pair of wide plate-glass shop
windows flanking a projecting rusticated entrance bay. Doorway
in architrave with bracketed panel above containing a circular
overlight with glazing bars beneath a moulded round-arched
hood. Corner section has recessed doorway flanked by single
narrower shop windows. Entablature at first-floor level. Upper
section has recessed arcaded 3-bay centre with attached giant
columns with rusticated blockwork bases, fluted necking and
Ionic-type capitals. Panels between columns have block
rustication, cross-windows to first floor, raised apron panels
at second-floor level, round-arched windows to second floor
with radial glazing bars and moulded arches with tall
keystones supporting swags. Similar round-arched recessed
window panels flanking the curved corner bay.
Bay to far left has recessed doorway and cross-windows to
first and second floors with raised apron panel between. Full
entablature with dentilled and modillioned cornice, blocking
course forming parapet with raised central panel. Hipped roof.
Curved corner bay has a central raised panel containing single
2-light casements to first and second floors separated by a
panel dated 1920, beneath a fluted frieze and cornice and a
relief panel with lettering "SAVOY PICTURE HOUSE" flanked by
wreaths. Above this, a pulvinated laurel leaf frieze and a
half dome surmounted by a loosely-clad dancing female
"flapper" with arms raised (formerly holding a tambourine).
All windows have glazing bars.
Front to East St Mary's Gate has 3-storey, single-bay section
to left with faience facade and similar details to Victoria
Street front. Remainder, of 2 and 3 storeys, 8-window range,
has late C20 shop front to ground floor, plain red brick above
with segmental-arched first-floor windows with glazing bars.
INTERIOR: altered by later C20 shop conversions.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:

Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.13; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.13; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town
Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO.14).

Listing NGR: TA2688009336

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660116

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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