Description

SALFORD

SJ8298NE CHAPEL STREET
949-1/19/44 (North side)
18/01/80 Independent Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
CHAPEL STREET
(North side)
Rex Bingo (Former Salford Cinema))

II

Cinema, now Independent chapel. Dated 1915. Faience and
roughcast render with late C20 brick wall to right-hand side.
Half-hipped roof in Welsh slate. Plan comprises a rectangular
auditorium behind a recessed entrance and lobby on left-hand
corner. Externally in a Baroque style.
The front elevation is expressed as 2 storeys. Central bay has
broad rusticated pilasters at either side of 2 elaborately
moulded circular windows, and flanked by a similar type of
oval window in either side, all set in panels of roughcast.
Above the central bay a segmental-arched pediment containing
the moulded words 'Salford Cinema AD 1915' over a moulded
segmental panel. Ground floor has doorways to centre and
right-hand side with paired rectangular windows between, and
main entrance set in the radiused left-hand corner behind a
porch with 4 Ionic columns beneath a curved cornice on
consoles. Above this a swagged frieze, elaborate balustrade
and open cupola on 6 columns with decorated capitals.
INTERIOR: much altered. The building is a significant example
of early cinema architecture.

Listing NGR: SJ8299698567

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q39297612

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)