This former cinema (on Jackson Street in Coalville) but now a Bingo Hall, screams deco.

Horizontals, verticals, friezes:-

Frontage:-

Detail of elegant deco frieze just below roofline and side scrolls:-

Frontage from left:-

Windows and scrolls:-

Small window:-

In 2009 I posted photos of Art Deco buildings in Chester.

Last September we took a trip into the city again from our stop at nearby Hawarden. Since we were approaching the city by a different route I found some more buildings to photograph.

A block of shops on Christleton Road. Some Art Deco style here, roofline, rule of three in main building windows:-

I only noticed the above because I had stopped to photograph Tanner’s Wines. Note horizontals, verticals, glazing, rule of three in frontage, clock.

Frontage:-

Other side view:-

“Sunburst” doors. Deco par excellence:-

In the city centre were a few more buildings I’d missed the previous time.

Body Shop, minor Deco touches, (flat) roof line, rule of three in centre windows:-

Deichman. On the cusp of Deco:-

I managed to get Marks and Spencer this time:-

Detail. Note “sunburst” balcony:-

Apart from its two Art Deco buildings (and even they were minor – see previous post) most of the architecture in Mold was fairly undistinguished.

St Mary’s Church (Eglwys y Santes Fair) prominent at the end of the High Street and built in thanksgivinbg for Henry VII of England’s victory at Bosworth Field was an exception.

Stitch of two photos:-

Tower and door:-

Information board:-

So too was this Tudor style building with unusual glazing, just opposite St Mary’s :-

Note the S-shaped pattern of the glazing on this zoom:-

A stunning piece of window glazing on The Brewer’s Arms, Berwick-Upon-Tweed. There’s almost a hint of Deco on the building’s upper portions and roofline.

From south(ish):-

From north:-

Windows close up:-

The building once housed Ruskins but is now occupied by Furness Building Society.

The rectangular windows now look double-glazed. I’m not so sure about the curved ones.

Good glazing on a shop in Groningen:-

There was interesting detail above the window’s centre. I’m assuming this was once a butcher’s:-

Curved glass on different shop:-

This shop’s owners are not much into tech it would seem. There’s something to be said for the old-fashioned virtues.