Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Theatre architect, of London, for whom see Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), I, 463-4. In 1896 Crewe was enlisted by the Savoy Theatre of Varieties, Dublin, Ltd to design a new theatre in South Anne Street, Dublin, but the project was abandoned.   Later, in 1913, he designed the Coliseum Theatre in Henry St, Dublin, which was destroyed in 1916, a year after it opened. He was also responsible for the conversion of the Theatre Royal, Arthur Square, Belfast, into a cinema, in 1915-17.

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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ANNE STREET SOUTH, NO. 032-34 (THEATRE, PROPOSED)
Date: 1896
Nature: Proposed new theatre on site of former Grafton Theatre of Varieties, with J.J. Farrall. For Savoy Palace of Varieties, Dublin, Ltd.
Refs: Prospectus in Irish Times, 21,24 Nov 1896.

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GREAT VICTORIA STREET, ROYAL HIPPODROME THEATRE
Date: 1906-07
Nature: -
Refs: Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 163

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HENRY STREET, NO. 024 (COLISEUM OR PREMIER PALACE THEATRE)
Date: 1913-15
Nature: New theatre. With Francis Bergin. Opened, 5 Apr 1915. Destroyed in 1916.
Refs: Drawings in OPW, formerly Cabinet E; IB 55, 7 Jun,16 Aug,13 Sep 1913, 383,536,595; 56, 27 Mar,10 Apr 1915, 141,168;  Freeman's Journal, 17 Mar 1915.

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ARTHUR SQUARE, ROYAL CINEMA
Date: 1915-1916
Nature: Conversion of Theatre Royal into cinema. Front of white-glazed Carrara ware. Opened end 1916.
Refs: IB 57, 19 Jun,14 Aug 1915, 285,365; 58, 25 Mar 1916, 140; 59, 6 Jan 1917, 16; B 112, 5 Jan 1917, 27; Paul Larmour, 'Cinema Paradiso', Perspective, Mar/Apr 1996, 24(illus.)