Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

English architect, of Lincoln (and London?) , active from the 1930s until the 1950s.   Leslie Norton was architect to Lincoln City Council in the 1930s.  During the 1930s and 1940s he designed a number of cinemas in Lincoln and elsewhere in England, as well as the Savoy Theatre, Limerick, and the Theatre Royal, Dublin.

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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HAWKINS STREET, THEATRE ROYAL
Date: 1935
Nature: Remodelling of theatre as cinema.  Executant architects: Scott & Good.
Refs: List of works 'in hands, or recently executed' in advertisement for C.W. Harrison & Sons in JRIAI (1936), 69;  Archiseek,www.archiseek.com/2011/1935-theatre-royal-hawkins-st-dublin/ (last visited, Mar 2016).

Building: CO.LIMERICK, LIMERICK, BEDFORD ROW, SAVOY CINEMA
Date: 1935
Nature: New cinema. Closed 1974. Demolished 1988.
Accommodation for 1,500 people
Vestibule a scheme of 'old rose and pink accentuated with delicate touches of gold and silver and effectively placed decorative mirrors'. Auditorium 'carried out in a richly respendent Moorish style which gives a fine atmospheric effect, pleasing and restful, and luxurious'.
Limerick firms who supplied materials for the new cinema were Messrs Moynihan (concrete blocks); F. Spaight & Sons Ltd, and James McMahon (timber supplies).
Attached to the cinema was a tea lounge and restaurant which occupied two floors.

Refs: Article in the Limerick Leader, 21 December, 1935, 1. Archiseek, www.archiseek.com/2015/1935-savoy-cinema-bedford-row-limerick (last visited, Mar 2016); /Limerick's Life, http://limerickslife.com/limerick-cinemas/ (last visited Mar 2016).