Lyceum Cinema:
An example of streamlined moderne architecture, a style of late art deco architecture. With curves and long horizontal lines which give the building a series of bandings, the look is streamlined reflecting the 1930s ship and motor vehicle design where streamlining came to the fore and the look became the epitome of sophistication. The Lyceum sweeps around the corner of Govan Road and down McKechnie Street giving a full vista of the south and east sweeping elevations from the east approach from Govan Road. The curved frontage has a large curved set of windows which are currently covered by a large printed screen showing an image of the building in its heyday. The five sets of entrance doors sit beneath the glazing and are flanked by tiled areas which stretch down the full length of the south and east elevations. Above these tiled areas the waslls are brick faced, the rear of the building is roughcast and windowless.
Designed by C.J. McNair and Elder, the building opened in 1938. In 1974 it was converted to house both a bingo hall and cinema. The building finally closed in 2006 and has sat empty since then. Category B listed.

street address: 908 Govan Road, Glasgow, G51 3AF
Latitude / Longitude: 55.863916,-4.314826 (sourced using Google Maps)
site visit date: 24 June 2011

view up the west end of the south elevation (24/06/2011)


south elevation onto Govan Road and the old large advertising frame to the left og the beginning of the sweep of the glazing (24/06/2011)


security grille on south elevation (24/06/2011)


view west along the south elevation (24/06/2011)


the first of the five entrance doors under the sweeping canopy (24/06/2011)


curved glazing turning the corner of Govan Road and McKechnie Street (24/06/2011)


frontage curvature sweeps down into McKechnie Street (24/06/2011)


photograph of the printed canvas stretched over the frontage glazing, the pattern of the glazing behind can be seen through the material to the top right of the image (24/06/2011)


corner location (24/06/2011)


east elevation onto McKechnie Street (24/06/2011)


view down the building's east elevation with the long horizontal lines zooming away from the viewer. Within the curved boundary wall the building protrudes upward with a brick box seen to the right of the photograph ascending from the top of the building (24/06/2011)


exit doorway on the east elevation (24/06/2011)


horizontal banding on the east elevation (24/06/2011)


three colours of glazed tiles topped by deep red horizontal banding stretch around the building's frontage (24/06/2011)


view south back down the east elevation towards Govan Road (24/06/2011)


north elevation, plain and windowless and roughcast (24/06/2011)


north-west corner (24/06/2011)




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