Granada Cinema, Woolwich
of Woolwich
A cinema belonging to Granada Theatres
1937 Opened. designed by Cecil Masey and Reginald Uren with interior design by Theodore Komisarjevsky (1882-1954). The builder was Bovis.
1966 Converted to a bingo hall.
1973 Listed Grade II* - one of the finest and most important cinema interiors in Britain, being one of the only two with convincing Gothic decoration. It is only slightly less elaborate than its sister cinema at Tooting, by the same team but without Uren, who was brought in to provide a dramatic streamlined front in the face (literally) of the competing Odeon cinema opposite which opened in the same year. Although converted to bingo in 1966 most of the internal decoration survives unaltered. The figurative painting by the Russian stage designer Vladimir Polunin is also of particular interest.
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Sources of Information
- [1] Historic England