1839 – Bethesda Chapel, Granby Row, Dublin
Architect: Frederick Darley / Batchelor & Hicks
Erected around 1839 as the Protestant Bethesda Chapel to replace an earlier one of around 1785.
Erected around 1839 as the Protestant Bethesda Chapel to replace an earlier one of around 1785.
The building, Garfield Chambers was built in 1882 and like many buildings on Royal Avenue,
Known originally as the Grafton Picture House,
A conversion of a former shop by architect Rudolph Maximilian Butler into a small cinema with 400 seats.
Once every neighbourhood or major street had its own cinema,
Quirky cinema building which had a windmill tower on the main facade.
Constructed as a Picture Theatre,
According to the Irish Builder,
Opened in 1914, the cinema sat 630 people and was originally known as the Manor Cinema.
Closed in 1953, to be demolished to allow a new cinema,