1839 – Bethesda Chapel, Granby Row, Dublin
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.
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,
With its giant Ionic order, this former theatre (the Pillar Picture House) is now sadly in use as a fast food restaurant.
Suburban cinema with its main entrance fronted by a cast iron and glass porch flanked by two commercial units.
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,
Constructed as a cinema after the destruction of the area in the 1916 Easter Rising.