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24-456: (Redirected from Plaza Theater ) Plaza Theatre or Plaza Theater may refer to: Australia [ edit ] Plaza Theatre, Adelaide , a former theatre in Adelaide, South Australia, now demolished Plaza Theatre, Paddington , Brisbane, Queensland, a cinema built from 1929, now known as Empire Revival Plaza Theatre, Perth , Western Australia,

48-543: A benefice could retain the glebe for his own use, usually for agricultural exploitation, or he could "farm" it (i.e., lease it, a term also used) to others and retain a rent as income. Glebe associated with the Church of England ceased to belong to individual incumbents as from 1 April 1978, by virtue of the Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976 (No. 4). It became vested on that date, "without any conveyance or other assurance", in

72-463: A cinema opened in 1937 Plaza Theatre, Sydney , New South Wales, a former theatre, now heritage-listed building India [ edit ] Plaza Theatre (Bangalore) United States [ edit ] Plaza Theater (Tucson) , Arizona Plaza Theatre (Palm Springs) , California Plaza Theatre (Atlanta) , Georgia Plaza Theatre (El Paso) , Texas Plaza Theatre Company , Cleburne, Texas Plaza Theatre (Charleston, West Virginia) ,

96-704: A ground level plinth just east of the north-east corner of the Tandanya building, which was dedicated by the Institution of Engineers, Australia , the Electricity Trust of South Australia and the Adelaide City Council on 6 April 1995. Other state heritage-listed buildings in Grenfell Street include: Other local heritage-listed buildings include: In July 2012, dedicated bus lanes were introduced along

120-467: A historic building Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Plaza Theatre . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plaza_Theatre&oldid=1152015099 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

144-511: A parish priest. The land may be owned by the church, or its profits may be reserved to the church. In the Roman Catholic , Anglican and Presbyterian traditions, a glebe is land belonging to a benefice and so by default to its incumbent . In other words, "glebe is land (in addition to or including the parsonage house/rectory and grounds) which was assigned to support the priest". The word glebe itself comes from Middle English , from

168-549: A theatre diminished from 1923, and by 1929 it was operating as a dance hall . The building was partially destroyed by fire on 4 November 1929, and it fell into disuse until it was refurbished and reopened in 1933 as the Embassy Ballroom, which had an Art Deco facade. In the 1950s it was converted into a cinema, first called the Plaza Theatre and renamed Paris Cinema in 1965. It was later demolished and Regent Arcade built on

192-520: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Plaza Theatre, Adelaide Grenfell Street ( 34°55′26″S 138°36′07″E  /  34.924°S 138.602°E  / -34.924; 138.602 ) is a major street in the north-east quarter of the Adelaide city centre , South Australia . The street runs west-east from King William Street to East Terrace . Its intersection with Pulteney Street

216-559: Is formed by Hindmarsh Square . On the west side of King William Street, it continues as Currie Street towards West Terrace. Grenfell Street was named after Pascoe St Leger Grenfell , a Cornish businessman and member of the South Australian Church Society . His significant donation of an acre of land on North Terrace was used for the construction of the Holy Trinity Church — one of the first churches built in

240-567: The Adelaide German Club ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Verein ) in 1894, opening in June of that year. It was subsequently used for a variety of community events (many unrelated to the club), for around 20 years. Charles Cawthorne took over the lease and reopened it Queen's Hall on 7 August 1915. Its use turned to performances, mainly concerts, operas , dramas, and fundraisers for World War I , and it also hosted occasional variety shows . Its use as

264-477: The Botanic Line of the Adelaide trams had begun in early October that year). After this, nearly all buses travelling in an east–west direction across the city use Grenfell. [REDACTED] Australian Roads portal Glebe Glebe ( / ɡ l iː b / , also known as church furlong , rectory manor or parson's close ( s )) is an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support

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288-530: The Diocesan Board of Finance of the diocese to which the benefice owning the glebe belonged, even if the glebe was in another diocese. But see 'Parsonages & Glebe Diocesan Manual 2012' for current legislation. Glebe land in Scotland was subject to the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Act 1925 ( 15 & 16 Geo. 5 . c. 33), section 30, which meant that it would be transferred little by little to

312-652: The O-Bahn tunnel under Rymill Park . The eastern end is occupied on the south side by the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute , an art and cultural museum also used as a venue for the Adelaide Fringe and other events, and on the north side by the East End Markets redevelopment. Central Hall, at no. 102a Grenfell, was built by a Mrs Phillipson, of Glenelg , for the use of

336-498: The Old French glèbe (originally from Latin : gleba or glaeba , "clod, land, soil"). Glebe land can include strips in the open-field system or portions grouped together into a compact plot of land. In early times, tithes provided the main means of support for the parish clergy, but glebe land was either granted by any lord of the manor of the church's parish (sometimes the manor would have boundaries coterminous with

360-745: The 1850s. In some cases associations with former glebe properties is retained in the local names, for example: Glebe Road in Arlington County, Virginia , the community of Glebe in Hampshire County, West Virginia , Glebe Mountain in Londonderry, Windham County, Vermont, Glebe Hill, near Tucker's Town , Bermuda, another Glebe Hill in Southampton Parish , Bermuda, and The Glebe Road in Pembroke Parish , Bermuda. Ottawa neighbourhood The Glebe

384-596: The General Trustees of the Church of Scotland . In Bermuda and the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain where the Church of England was the established church, glebe land was distributed by the colonial government and was often farmed or rented out by the church rector to cover living expenses. The Dutch Reformed Church also provided glebes for the benefit of the pastor; it continued this practice through at least

408-420: The city. Grenfell also donated another 40 acres (16 ha) of country land for the use of the church as glebe lands. This land later became the suburb of Trinity Gardens . Grenfell Street runs from King William Street to East Terrace . It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, at 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 chains (99 ft; 30 m) wide. On the west side of King William Street,

432-590: The full length of Grenfell Street in both directions, in operation from 7am to 7pm each weekday. When operational, taxis , cyclists and emergency vehicles are also able to use the lane, but private vehicles can only travel up to 100 metres (330 ft) in the bus lane. In December 2016, after the O-Bahn extension tunnel was built underneath Rymill Park at the eastern end of the street, buses formerly routed along North Terrace were permanently routed along Grenfell (although they had been temporarily diverted from North Terrace via East Terrace, since construction of

456-434: The lay rectors just as it had to the rector . The amount of such land varied from parish to parish, occasionally forming a complete glebe farm . From 1571 onwards, the incumbent of the benefice would record information about the glebe at ecclesiastical visitations in a " glebe terrier " (Latin terra , land). Glebe land could also entail complete farms, individual fields, houses ( messuages ), mills or works. A holder of

480-565: The mall. The southern side is populated mainly by office buildings, including the Grenfell Centre ("the Black Stump") at no. 25. A dedicated bus lane runs the whole length of both Grenfell and Currie Streets, limiting private vehicles to one lane for most of its length, and carrying nearly all bus traffic traversing the city in an east–west direction. At the eastern end of Grenfell, a dedicated bus track carries buses across East Terrace into

504-568: The parish but in most instances it would be smaller), or accumulated from other donations of particular pieces of land. Occasionally all or part of the glebe was appropriated , devoted or assigned to a priory or college . In the case where the whole glebe was given to impropriators they would become the lay rector (s) (plural where the land is now subdivided), in which case the general law of tithes would resume on that land, and in England and Wales chancel repair liability would now apply to

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528-525: The site. On the corner of Grenfell Street and East Terrace there is the old Grenfell Street Power Station building. Much of the building now houses the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute , facing Grenfell Street, which was heritage-listed on the SA Heritage Register in November 1984, while the old converter stations face East Terrace. A "Historic Engineering Plaque" is located on

552-471: The western continuation of Grenfell Street is Currie Street, named after Raikes Currie , a member of the South Australian Association and South Australian Company . The section of the street which runs parallel to Rundle Mall (west of Hindmarsh Square) on the northern side features many retail outlets, as well as the southern entrances of many of the arcades, side-streets, and eateries of

576-562: Was originally land dedicated to support St Andrew's Presbyterian Church . The Baptist, Presbyterian and other churches that were not established in Virginia succeeded in 1802 and passage in the legislature of the Glebe Act, whereby whether glebes were sold by the overseers of the poor for the benefit of the indigent in the parish. The Episcopal Church was weakened by the new law, but in the Carolinas

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