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Name:Former Picturedrome cinema, Southgate
HER Number:MLI91718
Type of record:Building

Summary

Former Picturedrome cinema, Southgate

Grid Reference:TF 069 454
Map Sheet:TF04NE
Parish:SLEAFORD, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

Full description

PRN 65323
This cinema opened in 1920. It closed in 2002, and had been the oldest cinema in the county still showing films. {1}
'Big and bold with an enormous Diocletian window and an orange-painted saucer dome above and Art Deco detailing'. {2}


<1> Neil R. Wright, 2004, Lincolnshire's Industrial Heritage - A Guide, p 52, NK31 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI9583.

<2> Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram, 1989, Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition), p 655 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI1062.

Monument Types

  • CINEMA (Early 20th Century to 21st Century - 1920 AD to 2002 AD)

Protected Status

  • Conservation Area

Sources and further reading

<1>Bibliographic Reference: Neil R. Wright. 2004. Lincolnshire's Industrial Heritage - A Guide. p 52, NK31.
<2>Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). p 655.