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This building is occupied by the Christian Life Centre church. According to the CLC [website the church was founded by Pastor Grady Reid in 1996 <ref http://www.clcoxford.co.uk/who-we-are/ website], the church was founded by Pastor Grady Reid in 1996/>.

The building opened on April 19, 1937 as The Regal cinema. It was designed by Robert Cromie, a noted architect of cinemas in England during the inter-war years <refname="oxTimes">Oxford Times, 11 July 2008: http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/lifestyle/arts/2391546.The_old_lady_of_Cowley_Road/</ref>It first opened on April 19, 1937, when much of Britain was still facing hardship under the Depression. But the assembly lines at Morris Motors in Cowley were booming, and at the Regal's opening ceremony, deputy mayor Mary Townsend celebrated the building's construction as a sign of Oxford's growing prosperity.

82-year old Graham Wintle, still resident in Oxfordin 2008, was projectionist at the Regal in its early days. He recalls that "although colour films had already arrived before the Second World War, the hues were garish" <ref name="oxTimes"/>. ==Pre-1930s== It seems likely that the Regal is the first building ever to be built on this site. This plot, along with much of the land east of the Regal (now covered by 1930s semis), was originally made up of vegetable patches and cricket fields before it was built on for the first time in the early 20th Century.