Antonia Brodie, Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, London/New York: Continuum, 2001, ISBN978-0-7201-2352-4, 2 vols., Volume 1 A–K, p. 141
Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 95, London: Kelly's Directories, 1969, p. 95
Allen Eyles, Odeon Cinemas volume 1: Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation, Cinema Theatre Association, London: British Film Institute, 2002, ISBN0-85170-813-7, p. 112 and note; Clare also practised on his own.
Conrad Lighton, Cape Floral Kingdom: The Story of South Africa's Wild Flowers, and the People who Found, Named and Made them Famous the World Over, rev. ed. Cape Town: Juta, 1973, ISBN978-0-7021-0443-5, p. 131.
James Stevens Curl, The Egyptian Revival: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2005, ISBN978-0-415-36119-4, p. 384.
Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, London 3: Northwest, The Buildings of England, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991, repr. New Haven, Connecticut/London: Yale University, 2002, ISBN0-300-09652-6, p. 550.
Eyles, Odeon 2, p. 128, describing it as "a wide barn of a place with a gloomy, echoey ambience in its final years."
According to Gray, p. 27, and Ken Roe, Walpole Cinema at Cinema Treasures, it was built in 1908 as a roller skating rink and converted by Beard in 1912.