Penistone Paramount Cinema

The building was commissioned as an assembly hall for the town and formed part of a larger complex including council offices and a library.

[1] It was designed by Henry R. Collins in the Art Deco style, built in brick and stone and was opened by the mayor of Huddersfield, Joseph Blamires, on 31 October 1914.

[2][3][4] The design involved a rusticated main frontage facing onto Shrewsbury Road.

It became the Town Hall Picture House showing silent films on 20 November 1915.

[9] It was used as the cinema setting for episode 2 of the television series, Brief Encounters, in 2016,[10] and it was refurbished at a cost of £100,000 in summer 2020.