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Cranston's Picture House, 13, 15, 17 Renfield Street, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Glasgow, Glasgow

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Latitude: 55.8611 / 55°51'39"N

Longitude: -4.2572 / 4°15'26"W

OS Eastings: 258824

OS Northings: 665400

OS Grid: NS588654

Mapcode National: GBR 0LL.2Q

Mapcode Global: WH3P2.KYZ7

Plus Code: 9C7QVP6V+C4

Entry Name: Cranston's Picture House, 13, 15, 17 Renfield Street, Glasgow

Listing Name: 13, 15 and 17 Renfield Street

Listing Date: 15 January 1985

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 376529

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33101

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Cranston's Cinema De Luxe
News Theatre
Tatler Cinema Club
Classic Film Centre
Cranston's Picture House

ID on this website: 200376529

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

Tagged with: Cinema

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Description

James Miller (with Richard M Gunn) 1914-16, reconstructed from earlier building by Thomson and Menzies of 1898. Built as tearoom with accommodation for 847 and small cinema.

Impressive Beaux Arts faience Carrara-ware facade, 5 bays with 1 bay returns, end bays advanced and set in broad plain pilasters. Ground floor largely modernised. 1st floor thermal window with metal balustrade over former cinema entrance, square headed keyblocked windows at corner bays; 2nd and 3rd floors set in giant pilasters, 2nd floor windows square-headed with inset entablatures, 3rd floor windows segment headed and keyblocked under continuous frieze band; 4th floor windows pilastraded (inset at corner bays) with bold mutuled cornice, massively bracketted on front faces of end bays. 5th floor set back as semi-eaves gallery treatment with high relief ornament between windows and bold cornice between the corner bays which rise higher into pavilion features with recessed Doric columns.

Interior: designed by John Ednie in Louis XVI manner fire damaged 1981 and largely destroyed.

Statement of Interest

Opened May 1916 as Cranston's DeLuxe, the cinema was part of a larger development by Glasgow based businesswoman Miss Cranston, which also included restaurants and tea-rooms. A second cinema, the News Theatre opened 1954; a third (Tatler Cinema Club) also opened in 1969. The complex was sold and renamed the Classic Film Centre in 1972, and closed in 1981 after a fire which led to demolition of all but the façade.

References and Notes updated as part of Cinemas Thematic Study 2007-08.

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