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Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EAW006898 / 792013)
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Regal Cinema
Grade 2 listed - English Heritage Building ID: 486875
Cinema, incorprating two shops at ground-floor-level. 1932 to the designs of Hurley Robinson. Steel frame clad in brick with artificial Guildstone bands and decorations; some now painted. Rectangular plan, with double-height auditorium, having single balcony, set behind streetfront of offices and entered from circular corner entrance.
Hurley Robinson was a significant West Midlands-based architect who designed a number of public buildings in a synthesis of classical and moderne styles that was advanced for 1932. As the opening brochure for the Regal notes, 'the quiet dignity and solid appearanc of the theatre must appeal to devotees of almost every type of architecture. While modern tendencis are revealed, there is nothing about the exterior elevation which could be termed ultra-modern or in any way offensive to the eye of the critic.' Robinson had designed over 55 cinemas before the Regal, but this is a rare survival and the most architecturally significant. The Regal was built as an independent cinema and survives remarkably little altered.
(Later Coral Bingo Hall)
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