Gala Casino Regent Square Northampton
Gala Casino is a licensed Casino located at Regent Street in NORTHAMPTON NN1 2LA. The Casino is operated by Gala Casinos Limited (#2348) trading as Gala Casinos, based at Gala Coral Group Limited, New Castle House, Castle Boulevard, NOTTINGHAM NG7 1FT. The license status: Variation by Northampton Borough Council as at. Barry Carter, General Manager of Gala Casino at Regent Square said: 'This partnership with Northampton Town Football Club is very important to us. Our aim was to increase our profile and to entertain our valued customers. We were very impressed by the club and how they were able to present a package that was ideal for our requirements. Housed within the Grosvenor Casino on Regent Street in Northampton is The Regent restaurant. This fabulously opulent restaurant offers guests the very best of modern British cuisine at extremely reasonable prices. You don't have to dabble in the casino to enjoy a meal at The Regent, but many choose to enjoy a pre-casino meal here. 13a Regent Square Northampton NN1 2NQ NN1 2NQ: 4: Northampton Hope Centre: Distance (miles) 0.03: Oasis House 35/37 Campbell Street Northampton NN1 3DS NN1 3DS: 5: Grosvenor Casino: Distance (miles) 0.07: Regent Street Northampton NN1 2LA NN1 2LA: 6: Little Europe: Distance (miles) 0.10: 10 Wellington Place Northampton NN1 3RQ NN1 3RQ: 7: Kilwe. FLAT 1A/IDEAL BUILDINGS, REGENT SQUARE. NN1 2NL Northampton. Medicspot Clinic Northampton Regent Street.
Gala Casino Regent Square Northampton Square
This locality was still being developed when a chapel was built in 1838/9 at a cost of £1594. At that time it was said to be in Todd’s Lane, Grafton Street. In 1851 it provided 115 free and 212 other sittings. It seems that in 1871 this building was replaced by the Regent’s Square building which had 479 sittings in 1873. This was a plain brick building with a “Grecian-Doric porched entrance. Later it was reported that the building had been extended in 1873, 1898, and 1906. One later source states that the chapel was built in 1877. Could this be the same work as was assigned to 1873 and could it imply that the 1839 chapel had been replaced by a more modern building? In 1940 the seating capacity was 900 and there were two schoolrooms and fourteen other rooms. These developments are shown on the site plans. Plan 1 from 1883-1887 shows the chapel and the Sunday school surrounded by other buildings and reached through passages from Grafton Street and Regent Square. Plan 2 from 1924-1926 also shows the second school building fronting on Regent Square. The chapel was closed some time after 1959 and the whole area has been redeveloped with, among other buildings, a casino
Sources
Ward, GS, The 1851 Religious Census of Northamptonshire, p 100; TNA HO129/168/21
Returns of Accommodation provided by Wesleyan Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1873 No 69
Francis Whellan, History, Topography, and Directory of Northamptonshire, 1874 p142
Methodist Church Buildings: Statistical returns including seating accommodation as at July 1st 1940, No 680
Site plans taken from the 25 inch OS plan of Northamptonshire, sheet XLV 5 of 1883-1887 and 1924-1926 and are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (Map images website).
Site visit 14.06.2019