Rex Cinema Berkhamsted, England

Listed Building Data

Rex Cinema has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1078110
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
26 February 1988
Name
REX CINEMA
Location
REX CINEMA, HIGH STREET
Parish
Berkhamsted
District
Dacorum
County
Hertfordshire
Grid Reference
SP 99449 07645
Easting
499449.0000
Northing
207645.0000

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

  1. 839 HIGH STREET SP 9907 NW 1/78 Rex Cinema II GV

  2. Cinema, 1938. Architect David E Nye. Brick with faience and painted reconstructed stone(?) to front facade. 1 to 2 storeys. Bowed facade with 7-light window between vertical piers, and projecting canopy above entrance (now enclosed within late C20 facia). Late C20 replacement doors. Return to left with cantilevered projection room to first floor. Good surviving interiors. Main auditorium now partitioned, but decoration survives. Rich Art Deco proscenium arch with fibrous plaster decorations; horizontal wave motifs in plaster to walls punctuated with plaster shell decoration; circular light fittings to circle roof. Former restaurant area to rear of stalls with four fluted columns with fluted light fittings in place of capitals, and much fibrous plaster floral decoration. Double height entrance hall with grand staircase and original mirrors.

Listing NGR: SP9944907645