Cecil Aubrey Masey (28 December 1880 – 7 April 1960) was an English theatre and cinema architect, born on 28 December 1880 in Lambeth,

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. Masey was a pupil of Bertie Crewe—with whom he worked on the Empire music hall in

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of 1908—and from 1909, he went into partnership with architect Roy Young. Granada Theatre, Clapham Junction 05

Some of Masey's earliest designs include the Grade II listed

New Wimbledon Theatre The New Wimbledon Theatre is situated on the Broadway, Wimbledon, London, in the London Borough of Merton. It is a Grade II listed Edwardian theatre built by the theatre lover and entrepreneur, J. B. Mulholland. Built on the site of a large hous ...

, built in 1919 together with Roy Young on the Broadway in

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, and the Electric Theatre in Bournemouth, built in 1919 for Alexander Bernstein. In 1920 Masey also designed the Empire Cinema in

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for Bernstein. The Grade II listed Phoenix Theatre was designed together with

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and Bertie Crewe, and opened in 1930. It is a

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in the

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, located on Charing Cross Road, at the corner with Flitcroft Street, and with the entrance on Phoenix Street. The Grade I listed Granada Cinema with four Corinthian style pillars over the entrance, located in

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, an area in the borough of

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, London, which opened in 1931, it was one of the great luxurious cinemas built in the 1930s; and the now demolished Rex Cinema, Station Approach of 1936 in the town of Hayes in the

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. He also designed the Grade II* listed

Granada Cinema, Woolwich The former Granada Cinema, also known as the Ebenezer Building or Cathedral of Christ Faith Tabernacle, in Woolwich, South East London, was built as a large and luxurious cinema in the 1930s. It had a seating capacity of nearly 2500 and is now be ...

(with

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and

Theodore Komisarjevsky Fyodor Fyodorovich Komissarzhevsky (russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Комиссаржевский; 23 May 1882 – 17 April 1954), or Theodore Komisarjevsky, was a Russian, later British, theatrical director and designer. He began his car ...

) and the

Granada Theatre, Clapham Junction The Granada Theatre is a Grade II* listed building at St John's Hill, Clapham Junction, London. It was built in 1937 by the architects Cecil Masey, H R Horner and Leslie Norton, and with interior design by Theodore Komisarjevsky Fyodor ...

(with H. R. Horner and Leslie Norton), both built in 1937. Masey died on 7 April 1960. His address was 29 Woodcote Avenue, Wallington, Surrey.

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* Architects from London People from Lambeth 1880 births 1960 deaths {{UK-architect-stub