Architecture Notes

Event ID 685718

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Architect: W H Playfair 1821

Originally a veterinary college from 1888 to 1904. Opened as a cinema in 1908. Became known as the Atmospheric in 1929-30 and subsequently Pringle's. After this date it became a theatre being known as Millicent Ward's Studio Theatre and the Festival Theatre. In 1938 it was renamed The Broadway and in 1946 this building and those in the immediate surroundings were gifted to the Church of Scotland.

From this time on the theatre and cinema was known as The Gateway. The last use as a cinema was sometime around 1965-66.

The building was then used as the Scottish Television Company's Edinburgh studio who have subsequently vacated the premesis and it is now used by the Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh University.

B Thomas 1984, information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2003