The RegalCinema

The Regal opened on 10 October 1932, built for a group of local businessmen to a design by cinema architect Hurley Robinson, whose reeded, lotus-capped entrance columns survive on the Port Street corner. When the building was put up for sale in 2000, a group of residents formed the Evesham Regal Trust to save it, and the Grade II listing followed; the cinema nonetheless closed in 2003. Restoration fell to father and son Ian and Laurence Wiper, who spent over two years and around two million pounds returning the auditorium and its Art Deco plasterwork before the Regal reopened in January 2012, with new stalls seating and sofas installed in the circle. It now screens current and archive film, hosts live events and exhibitions, and runs a coffee shop and wine bar on site.