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