Hamilton, Keith Street, La Scala Cinema
Cinema (20th Century)
Site Name Hamilton, Keith Street, La Scala Cinema
Classification Cinema (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Vogue Cinema; Vogue Bingo And Social Club
Canmore ID 183789
Site Number NS75NW 99
NGR NS 72606 55539
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/183789
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Hamilton (South Lanarkshire)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Hamilton
- Former County Lanarkshire
Opened 1921. Art deco classical with Italianate touches. Brick and white faience with marble steps. Symmetrical front, broad tripartite portico stretched between low towers, two Corinthianesque columns with palm-tree shafts set within 2 rectangular piers with beaded panels, central name panel in crosswork parapet. 3 doors divided by anta in architrave frame, windows in outer bays. Towers pilastered with outer doors in architraves, bipartites over and recessed open top stages with broad-eaved pyramidal roofs.
Good, relatively unspoilt pilastered and segmentally ceiled auditorium with gallery, stage blocked off mid 1970s, richly architraved segmental proscenium arch with central cartouche. (Historic Scotland)
