Savoy Cinema, Dublin, Ireland

"Built in 1928-29, The Savoy was designed in the same Classical style as the adjacent Gresham Hotel and Hammam Chambers. It “was once one of the great "atmospherics" - the massive interior decorated on a Venetian theme. The safety curtain had a painting of the Doge's Palace, the proscenium arch was in the shape of a Venetian bridge, and decorative Venetian windows and balconies looked down on the audience. All that is gone now, as the cinema was split up to provide multiple smaller theatres some years back” (source: Cinema Treasures).

"Such a huge auditorium could not have survived as a cinema today and sadly the interior was largely swept away when the Savoy was converted into a multi-screen venue.

The Classically styled exterior still dominates O'Connell Street (virtually opposite the former Carlton Cinema - closed), and remains a popular cinema in Dublin despite the existance of a couple of multiplexes".

Photograph: 1994
Adress: 16-19 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland
Satus: Open