New Pavilion

• Theatre ID
  1311
• Built / Converted
  1911
• Dates of use
  • 1929 - 1931
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Licensed premises (nightclub since 1990) <br> (cinema 1916-29 and 1931-68; bingo 1968-88)
• Address
  South Queen Street & High Street, Morley, West Yorkshire, England

Details

Built as a cine-variety in 1911, a fire in 1913 destroyed the backstage area. The auditorium was left intact and the theatre reopened in the same year. By 1916 scarcity of suitable stage acts led to its becoming a full time cinema. Silent movies had ceased to attract audiences by 1929 and it reverted to professional theatre use. Talkie equipment was installed in 1931 when it became a regular cinema again, remaining active until 1968. After twenty years as a bingo house it stood unoccupied until reopening as a club in 1990. It is a fairly substantial building for its kind and date, three storeys in hard red brick, cream faience dressings and shaped parapet with segmental pediments to the outer bays and a scrolly pedimental gable at the centre, with the name NEW PAVILION. On the High Street front there were four shop fronts, now boarded up. Due to the triangular shape of the site, the corner entrance is narrow, framed by pilasters, with a segmental pediment broken by a little obelisk and with the date 1911 in the tympanum. The height of the unusual triangular stage house is particularly striking. The auditorium had a single balcony. It is not known how much of the interior survived the post-1968 alterations.

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• Other names
  After Dark (or) Orbit
• Events
  • 1929 - 1931 Use:
  • 1911 Design/Construction:
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1913 Alteration: partly reconstructed after fire; back projection room added
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1956 Alteration: adapted for Cinemascope
    • Unknown - Architect
• Listings
  • Grade Not listed