Cecil Masey

Cecil Aubrey Masey (28 December 1880 - 7 April 1960) was an English theatre and cinema architect.

Granada Theatre, Clapham Junction

Cecil Aubrey Masey was born on 28 December 1880.^[1]

Masey was a pupil of Bertie Crewe. From 1909, he went into partnership with Roy Young in London.^[1]

His major works include the New Wimbledon Theatre, built in 1919 together with architect Roy Young, it is a Grade II listed Edwardian situated on The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, in the London Borough of Merton; the Grade II listed Phoenix Theatre, designed together with Giles Gilbert Scott and Bertie Crewe, and released in 1930, it is a West End theatre in the London Borough of Camden, located on Charing Cross Road, at the corner with Flitcroft Street, and with the entrance is in Phoenix Street; the Grade I listed Art Deco style Granada Cinema with four Corinthian style pillars over the entrance, located in Tooting, an area in the borough of Wandsworth, 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 London Borough of Hillingdon, West London.^[2] He also designed the Grade II* listed Granada Cinema, Woolwich (with Reginald Uren and Theodore Komisarjevsky) and the Granada Theatre, Clapham Junction (with H R Horner and Leslie Norton), both built in 1937.^[3]

Masey died on 7 April 1960. His address was 29 Woodcote Avenue, Wallington, Surrey.^[4]

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