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Former Granada Cinema

A Grade II Listed Building in Kingston upon Thames, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4116 / 51°24'41"N

Longitude: -0.2998 / 0°17'59"W

OS Eastings: 518336

OS Northings: 169438

OS Grid: TQ183694

Mapcode National: GBR 83.T80

Mapcode Global: VHGR8.RSB6

Plus Code: 9C3XCP62+M3

Entry Name: Former Granada Cinema

Listing Date: 30 January 1987

Last Amended: 24 February 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1358456

English Heritage Legacy ID: 203201

Also known as: Options Cinema
Cannon
Virgin
ABC
Granada Kingston upon Thames

ID on this website: 101358456

Location: Kingston upon Thames, London, KT1

County: London

District: Kingston upon Thames

Electoral Ward/Division: Grove

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Kingston upon Thames

Traditional County: Surrey

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Norbiton St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Southwark

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Description


CLARENCE STREET
Nos 154-166, Former Granada Cinema,

(Formerly listed as Granada Cinema, 154-156 Clarence Street, previously listed under RICHMOND ROAD)

Former cinema. 1939. Designed by George Coles with interior by Komisarjevsky. Brick. two storeys to facade. Plate glass replacement entrance doors to ground floor, beneath cantilevered canopy. Three arched windows to first floor, with three oculi above. Rectangular tower to right with later C20 lettering. Fine interior including double height entrance hall with heavy coffered ceiling and triple arch motifs to walls etc and main auditorium with plastered proscenium flanked by triple arch motifs with decorative grilles rounded to ceiling etc. Original light fittings.

Listing NGR: TQ1833669438

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/04/2018

History


Kingston upon Thames, historically in Surrey, was an important market town, port and river crossing from the early medieval period, while there is evidence of Saxon settlement and of activity dating from the prehistoric period and of Roman occupation. It is close to the important historic royal estates at Hampton Court, Bushy Park, Richmond and Richmond Park. The old core of the town, around All Saints Church (C14 and C15, on an earlier site) and Market Place, with its recognisably medieval street pattern, is ‘the best preserved of its type in outer London’ (Pevsner and Cherry, London: South, 1983 p. 307). Kingston thrived first as an agricultural and market town and on its historic industries of malting, brewing and tanning, salmon fishing and timber exporting, before expanding rapidly as a suburb after the arrival of the railway in the 1860s. In the later C19 it become a centre of local government, and in the early C20 became an important shopping and commercial centre. Its rich diversity of buildings and structures from all periods reflect the multi-facetted development of the town.

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