{"id":32532,"date":"2022-02-15T18:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=32532"},"modified":"2022-02-15T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T18:06:40","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-work-starts-on-new-lidl-inside-historic-former-liverpool-cinema-saved-from-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=32532","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Work starts on new Lidl inside historic former Liverpool cinema saved from demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Work appears to have started on a former cinema in Wavertree which was branded an \u2018increasingly rare survivor\u2019, according to The Liverpool Echo.<\/em><\/h3>\n
image: Former Abbey Cinema Wavertree – By Phil Nash from Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 & GFDLViews, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n

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\u2026landmark site – which featured in the original draft lyrics to The Beatles song In My Life\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

The Liverpool Echo<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

Last year, supermarket Lidl announced its intention to tear down the former\u00a0Abbey Cinema<\/a>\u00a0building on Church Road North in Wavertree, which was deemed to be “beyond economic repair.”<\/p>\n

This was to make way for a new store to be built there.<\/p>\n

However, after rallying public support, Historic England, the public body which protects old buildings, officially recommended the landmark site – which featured it the original draft lyrics to\u00a0The Beatles<\/a>\u00a0song In My Life – for a Grade II level listing.<\/p>\n

This means it cannot be demolished.<\/p>\n

Concerns were raised when signs were put up on the former picture palace, saying “demolition in progress”, as work appears to be carried out.<\/p>\n

But the\u00a0ECHO<\/a>\u00a0understands this is not demolition work, instead it is renovation work inside the building itself.<\/p>\n

Sarah Charlesworth, Listing Adviser at Historic England previously said: “The Abbey is an increasingly rare survivor from the 1930s heyday of cinema, designed by the Liverpudlian architect Alfred Shennan.<\/p>\n

“The building\u2019s striking internationally-influenced architecture and the many special features of its interior design, including its wooden mosaic flooring and shell-like ceiling domes, will now be protected for future generations.<\/p>\n

“The Abbey has proved to be versatile enough to serve a range of purposes since it closed as a cinema, so we hope that the owner and the local community will now come together to find a sustainable new use for this remarkable building.\u201d<\/p>\n

After news the building was saved from demolition, ECHO readers were quick to have their say.<\/p>\n

One reader said: “You can’t knock it down it’s a landmark been there forever its Wavertree’s front door.”<\/p>\n

Another wrote: “Well done to the action committee. Needs some TLC but have always enjoyed looking at this building.<\/p>\n

“Most of the buildings today have no character and are blocks, remind me of Legoland with windows.”…<\/p>\n

“Liverpool has many old cinema buildings being left to rot, let\u2019s take this opportunity and move on.”<\/p>\n

Liverpool planning and tourism expert Jonathan Brown, who wrote the listing application, previously said to the\u00a0ECHO<\/a>\u00a0: \u201cTo replace an elegant 82 year old survivor of the Blitz with a single storey shed in a car park is like recording over an Oscar-winning epic with a wobbly home movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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