Survey Data
Reg No
21831012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Cinema
Date
1945 - 1950
Coordinates
136294, 141657
Date Recorded
30/11/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay two-storey Art Deco-style cinema, opened 1946, with rendered façade fronting barrel-roofed auditorium. Corrugated-iron-covered barrel roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Channelled rendered façade with pair of round-topped banded fins. Square-headed door opening below cantilevered canopy with glazed timber double doors having overlights. Street fronted.
Appraisal
This cinema is a typical example of twentieth-century cinema architecture in Ireland with a stylish façade influenced by the Art Deco movement disguising a wholly utilitarian auditorium. The cinema closed in 1974 and, although showing signs of neglect, it remains a striking landmark in Main Street.