Hippodrome (Aberdare)

• Theatre ID
  2467
• Built / Converted
  1858
• Dates of use
  • : early C20- ?late 1920s
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Bingo
• Address
  Canon Street, Aberdare, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

Details

Built as a temperance hall for concerts, meetings etc, it was renamed Hippodrome early in the twentieth century when music hall performances were given. It was converted to a cinema in the late 1920s, for which use the auditorium was altered. It has a decent, chapel-like, two-storey stucco front with a pedimented gable to a slated roof. The ground floor is channelled with an altered central entrance of vaguely Po-mo character. Five windows at first-floor, the centre one glazed and pedimented, the others blind.

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• Other names
  Temperance Hall, Palladium
• Events
  • Use: early C20- ?late 1920s
  • 1858 Design/Construction:
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1920 - 1929 Alteration: converted to cinema
    • Unknown - Architect
• Listings
  • Grade Not listed