Carlton Cinema, Islington

The cinema opened in 1930 with a screening of Welcome Danger. Carlton Cinema was taken over by Associated British Cinemas Ltd. (ABC) in February 1935, and was famous for "ABC Minors" Saturday morning screenings. which operated for almost 35 years until March 2007. It was purchased by an evangelical Christian church Resurrection Manifestations in 2007, and reopened in 2015 as Gracepoint, a 900 capacity venue available for hire and an active church.

Architect George Coles is now famous for the many Art Deco cinemas he designed, including the Troxy in Stepney (1933), the Odeon, Muswell Hill (1936-6), and the Gaumont State Cinema in Kilburn (1937). The Carlton Cinema was an early foray into his signature style, with an Egyptian influence. The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in November 1922 had contributed to a brief "Egyptomania" and influenced the Art Deco style and the buildings erected in that period, particularly cinemas and theatres. The building's façade is covered in black, white and coloured faience, with other walls in yellow brick. The façade has a stylized frieze of lotus flowers in coloured faience running around the ground…