Scala Picture House
142 East Parade,
Bradford,
BD1 5EE
142 East Parade,
Bradford,
BD1 5EE
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There is much additional information about this theatre, its current status, and pictures on this webpage.
Not only used as a means of raising money for the church, the intention was so that the parish priest could control the type of films his parishioners were seeing.
Alan
May 2006. The Leeds Catolic Dicosis which owns the premises is proposing to close the St Mary’s RC church (also listed) which at present uses La Scala as it’s church hall. They will them sell the premises which can only put the building at serious risk of dmeolition.
Copies of he full original plans of the building are avalable on microfich at the Bradford branch of the West Yorkshire Archives Service.
A recent auditorium view, showing a part of the building hidden away above a false ceiling here:
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Following a tour of this building yesterday, it appears to be even more interesting than previously thought. It was built for the church as a way of raising money (the nearby St Peters had a similar scheme with the Tivoli). The stalls floor has been levelled and a false ceiling put in at balcony level. This part of the building is now a plain meeting room. However above this everything is intact, from the plasterwork on the walls to the projection room (empty) and a delightful single box at the rear of the balcony. Narrow corridors, tiny little payboxes positioned in the centre of a door and an open trussed ceiling all remain – largely unseen for decades.