Tyne and Wear HER(6449): Pilgrim Street, Odeon Cinema (Paramount) - Details
6449
Newcastle
Pilgrim Street, Odeon Cinema (Paramount)
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Recreational
Cinema
Cinema
20TH CENTURY
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Extant Building
Designed by Frank Verity and Samuel Beverley for Paramount in 1931. It was an American style super-cinema with a Wurlitzer organ, orchestra and Tiller Girls. Has a blank brick face to the street relieved by huge pilasters, brick panels and decorative stone cornice, balconies and first floor windows. It became the Odeon in 1939. Two metal Paramount logos can still be seen above the cornice at the top of the building.
424990
564440
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N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (second edition); D. Lovie, 1997, The Buildings of Grainger Town; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 34 and 143; Frank Manders, 1991, Cinemas of Newcastle, 108-118; Frank Manders, 2005, Cinemas of Newcastle, pages 70-73, 75, 89-90, 91, 160; Heritage Architecture Ltd., 2006, Historical Assessment of East Pilgrim Street, Newcastle