New Olympus

• Theatre ID
  2048
• Built / Converted
  1986
• Dates of use
  • 1986: continuing
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Theatre
• Address
  162-66 Barton Street/Blenheim Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1 4EU, England

Details

The New Olympus Theatre is a conversion of the ex-Picturedrome/Ritz which had been operating as a bingo hall for some years. The Gloucester Operatic and Dramatic Society (GODS) which had become a professional group, had outgrown its 160 seat theatre and converted the building, after six months' volunteer effort, into the 426 seat theatre, opening in March 1986. The property changed hands in 2008 and the City Council made some money available under its Interim Historic Areas Grant Scheme to carry out repair works and undertake a feasibility study.

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• Other names
  Picturedrome, Ritz
• Events
  • 1986 Use: continuing
  • 1923 - 0 Design/Construction: as a cinema (architect unknown).
  • 1955 - 0 Alteration: modernised (architect unknown).
  • 1962 - 0 Alteration: converted to bingo (architect unknown).
  • 1986 - 0 Design/Construction: converted to theatre.
  • Owner/Management: Built for E C J Palmer, owner
  • 1943 Owner/Management: Mayfair, taken over by ABC
  • 1986 Owner/Management: Gloucester Operatic and Dramatic Society
• Capacities
  • Original: 744
  • Later: 1943: 685
  • Current: 426
• Listings
  • Grade II