Coutts

Built in 1863 behind the Royal George Tavern, it was said to have been designed after the fashion of the London concert rooms of the time. It reopened in 1890 as the Canterbury with ‘new scenery and decorations’, became Coutts in 1897 and fell into disuse in 1901. In 1912 it became the Bull Ring Cinema. Now a restaurant and karate club.

The interior has been gutted and subdivided, with the loss of all original features (a great pity, since so little is known of the physical nature of music halls of this early date outside London). Exterior survives almost intact in the form of a plain, rectangular brick structure with a pitched roof. Street elevation is one of the long sides, in six rendered bays, relieved by a blind arch in each bay.