Royal Playhouse

• Theatre ID
  1089
• Built / Converted
  1865
• Dates of use
  • 1865 - 1987
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  dark (cinema until Sept 2000)
• Address
  White Lion Street, Tenby, Dyfed, Wales

Details

Built as assembly rooms in 1865, equipped for theatrical use. Became a cinema by 1912 but retained stage plays and music and dancing licence. Now exclusively a cinema. Stuccoed, parapeted façe, in three major bays, the centre advanced and pedimented. Recess containing openings (blind at first floor) in outer bays, framed by plain pilasters carrying semi-circular arches. The centre similarly treated but with three recesses linked as an arcade. Interior has single balcony. The entire stage house has been demolished to permit the building of squash courts for the adjacent Royal Gate House Hotel. The back wall is now situated just behind the proscenium arch and the cinema screen is flown in front of it with a consequent loss of the front four rows of seats. Cinema use ceased in September 2000.

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• Other names
  Royal Gate House Assembly Rooms, Royal Playhouse Cinema
• Events
  • 1865 - 1987 Use:
  • 1865 Design/Construction:
    • Unknown - Architect
  • Alteration: n.d. stagehouse demolished
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1908 Owner/Management: Gate House Hotel Co
  • 1966 Owner/Management: Mr Fry of Fry’s Enterprises, lessee
  • 1972 Owner/Management: Reverted to Gate House Hotel
• Capacities
  • Later: 1908: 700 1912: 865
  • Current: 479
• Listings
  • Grade Not listed
• Dimensions
  • Stage dimensions: Depth: was 16ft Width SL: was 17ft SR: was 17ft
  • Proscenium width: 18ft
  • Height to grid: No grid
  • Orchestra pit: None