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George Coles

Kilburn NW6 7HY

Towering former cinema designed by the prolific George Coles. Coles produced nearly ninety cinemas in the interwar period, with designs all over Metro-Land. This cinema is a good example of the ‘more is more’ style of cinema design, in which the building acts as an advert for itself, an idea not so different from Charles Holden’s underground stations. The Gaumont State Kilburn has central tower finished in cream-coloured faience and a lobby that is panelled with green vitrolite. Like many surviving cinema buildings in London, it became a bingo hall before converting to a church.