CINEMAS AT RISK

When the English Heritage announced its Buildings at Risk Register in July 2007 the Cinema Theatre Association took the opportunity to highlight the immense threat to historic cinemas nationwide.

This building type is highly relevant to Britain’s architectural and social heritage of the first half of the Twentieth Century, when picture palaces were a cornerstone of everyday life, entertainment and social interchange. While the façades were sometimes kept modest, exciting worlds of fantasy and escapism were offered on the insides with the exotic and highly stylised interior decorative schemes transporting the customers into a different world. Since then, these once ubiquitous fixtures have started to disappear from our towns and cities and virtually intact examples are becoming increasingly rare.

CINEMAS AT RISK

Listed Cinemas at Risk

Unlisted Cinemas at Risk