Empire Cinema (Birmingham)

United Kingdom / England / Sutton Coldfield / Birmingham / Maney Corner
 cinema, 1936_construction, Grade II Listed (UK)
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This is a Grade II listed cinema building, constructed in the 1930s for the Odeon Cinemas chain. 1935-6 by Cecil Clavering of Harry Weedon and Partners for Oscar Deutsch and the Odeon group of companies. Steel frame clad in brown brick with faience tiling to front facade, fin and staircase tower. Banded decoration to sides; flat roofs. Freestanding cinema on prominent corner site, originally having double-height foyer, staircase and double-height auditorium with balcony on naturally falling site, each defined as a separate block in a complex, carefully massed and expressionistic composition inspired by Schoffler, Shloenbach and Jacobi's Titania Palast, Berlin of 1928. Four double doors to entrance on curved corner, under projecting curved canopy. To left a tall advertising fin, now truncated, originally announcing `CINEMA'.

In the 2000s, it was taken over by Empire Cinemas who continue to keep it in use.

Maney Corner, Birmingham Rd, Sutton Coldfield B72 1QL
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Coordinates:   52°33'23"N   1°49'32"W

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