Pavilion Theatre

Heritage listing

Details This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/05/2020 SZ 0890 768/12/10047 BOURNEMOUTH WESTOVER ROAD The Pavilion Theatre and surrounding raised terrace and steps GV II Entertainment complex of theatre with ballroom and supper rooms, one of latter now used as public house. 1928-29 by G Wyville Home and Shirley Knight, winners of a competition in 1923 assessed by Sir Edwin Cooper; remodelled in 1934 and in the 1950s in the original style. Sir E Owen Williams was the consultant engineer. A beaux arts composition in stripped classical style. Red brick with Empire stone dressings; pantiled roofs. The plan is of two halves on a steeply sloping site, with the theatre on two levels at the front, and the ballroom to the rear with the supper room and public house below reached by corridors and stairs to either side of the theatre. Entrance to theatre and ballroom has three-bay front, with round-arched openings to front and renewed first-floor windows set between broad classical pilasters under deep stone cornice and parapet. Pavilions to either side raised in the 1950s in similar style. Roof surmounted by iron crestings. Behind it a flytower was raised in 1934 and rebuilt in the 1950s with bands of stonework. Side elevations retain some original windows with metal margin lights and fan-shaped tops, again set in three-bay composition between pilasters. Rear elevations with renewed windows under deep eaves cornice, the ground-floor public house with original metal fenestration under late C20 awnings. The interiors survive very completely in a variety of styles reflecting the importance of Grecian and Egyptian influences in the late 1920s. Entrance hall reached via vestibule with original pendant lights and with plaque commemorating the opening by the Duke of Glouc

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.