Editing Granville, New South Wales (section)

== Buildings and places of interest ==
[[Image:St. Aphanasius - Granville NSW (2024-1).jpg|thumb|St. Aphanasius Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox church]]

Granville has a mixture of residential, commercial and industrial developments. The commercial and residential developments are mostly around [[Granville railway station]] and [[Parramatta Road]]. Granville is primarily dominated by freestanding [[weatherboard]], [[fibro]] and unrendered brick buildings. The area is no longer exactly "typical" [[quarter acre]] block territory, but {{convert|500|to|600|m2|acre|abbr=on}} blocks are reasonably common. Terraced houses are rare, but increasing in number. Apartment blocks, generally three to four storeys in height, are also becoming more common in the vicinity of the railway station.

Buildings that deserve some attention are:

* ''Granville Town Hall'', which was built in 1888
* ''The Royal Hotel'' corresponds with the architecture of the Town Hall about 200 m away
* The ''Former School of Arts'' building just north of the railway station on Good Street, built in 1883
* ''St. Marks Anglican Church'' dates back to 1882
* ''St. Aphanasius Church'', a [[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church|Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox]] with [[onion dome]]s, adds some interest to William Street. It dates back to 1956.
* The ''White Palace'' in South Street has an exterior with [[Art Deco]] features. The building was gutted and redeveloped in 2007.
* The intersecting circles of ''Granville [[Returned and Services League of Australia|RSL]]'' Sub-Branch Building serves as an interesting example of modern architecture. It was designed by Frank Fox & Associates.

=== Crest Theatre ===
[[Image:Granville Crest.JPG|thumb|The "Crest" Theatre, originally a movie theatre.]]
{{Main|Crest Theatre, Granville}}
The ''Crest'' building on the corner of Blaxcell and Redfern Streets, was built by [[Hoyts]] in 1948 as a movie theatre and was used for screening films up until 1963. The structure of the building is of a [[Quonset hut]] design, while the facade and interior is of a post-[[Art Deco]] and [[Streamline Moderne|post-Moderne]] [[Eclecticism in art|eclectic]] style,<ref name="Heritage">[http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=5053520 "Crest Theatre"] listing on the [[NSW State Heritage Register]].</ref> influenced by the "[[Movie palace|Picture Palace]]" architecture popularly used for movie theatres. It is now used as a [[function hall]].

The Crest Theatre is now listed in the [[NSW State Heritage Register]] as being of "State significance", being one of the few [[movie theatre|cinemas]] built in Australia in the 1940s.<ref name="Heritage" /> Externally and internally the building remains largely intact, though the signage on the external decorative pier now reads "B-L-O-U-Z-A",<ref>[http://www.blouzahall.com.au/history.html History of the Crest Theatre]</ref> rather than the original "H-O-Y-T-S" (later it was "B-I-N-G-O").