Central Hall, Little Collins Street

Central Hall was a meeting room and theatrical hall, and later a cinema known as the Grosvenor Theatre, located at 201 Little Collins Street, in Melbourne, Australia, that operated from 1928 to 1968.

[1] In 1927, it was announced that the land occupied by the hall was to be leased to Victoria Palace Ltd. to build a nine-storey building, as a large extension to their hotel next door on Little Collins Street, with 200 bedrooms, designed by architects Gawler & Drummond.

[2] The plans included a new hall for the church occupying much of the ground level and a mezzanine, and Victoria Palace contributed £5,000 of the estimated £11,000 required to fit it out as a public hall and recreational facility.

Designed to seat 850, it was envisaged that the hall would be used by the church for concerts, meetings, and lectures, and for screening films.

The cinema closed in 1968, and the space was gutted for a car park for the Victoria Hotel.