The National Club, Kilburn, London



Architect
Edward A Stone
Date Built
1914
Location
Kilburn High Road
Description
The Historic England website points out that this building on Kilburn High Road was once the largest cinema in Europe adding that it is, "... one of very few surviving examples nationally that display cinema design at its point of departure from theatre planning."  When it was built, it had a seating capacity of 2.310.



The Cinema Treasures website points out that, "... The Grange Cinema opened on 30th July 1914 and was hailed at the time as ‘the largest purpose built cinema in Great Britain’. The opening film was 'She Stoop’s to Conquer'. It was a project of the North Metropolitan Circuit and even today it stands out as a perfect example of the type of super cinemas which were to be built over a decade later.  The building takes up a whole block and has the cinema’s name and date on the upper section of the facade facing the High Road. It has a corner entrance topped by a large copper dome. Inside the foyer is a galleried oval rotunda with a stairway leading to what was the tea room and into the circle."  It appears that in 2019, when I took these images, the building was occupied by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God







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