Leicester Athena
Athena is a Grade II-listed events venue in the cultural quarter of Leicester City Centre, England. Built originally as an Odeon Cinema in 1936, it closed for most of the 1990s and remained vacant up until 2005, where the building was restored as a multi-discipline events venue.Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Event venue
- Description: conferencing and banqueting venue in Leicester, England, formerly the Odeon Cinema
- Also known as: “Athena”, “Athena Leicester”, “Odeon Cinema”, and “Odeon Theatre”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Curve and Leicester railway station.
Curve
Theater building
Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Curve, also known as Curve Theatre, is a theatre in Leicester, England, based in the cultural quarter in Leicester City Centre. Previously, it had been called Leicester Performing Arts Centre.
Leicester railway station
Railway station
Photo: Stephen Pointer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Leicester railway station is a main line railway station in the city of Leicester, in Leicestershire, England. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway and owned by Network Rail. Leicester railway station is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Leicester Athena.
Leicester Secular Hall
Place of worship
Photo: Kris1973, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leicester Secular Hall is a Grade II listed building in Leicester, England. It was built in 1881 for the city's Secular Society. The Leicester Secular Hall Co. Leicester Secular Hall is situated 590 feet northwest of Leicester Athena.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bede Island and Latimer.
Bede Island
Suburb
Bede Island is an area of Leicester, England close to the city centre, with the River Soar to the west and Grand Union Canal to the east. For many years Bede Island South was a run down area of brownfield land home to Vic Berry's locomotive scrapyard but in the 1990s urban regeneration sought to improve housing, employment opportunities and the environment in the area.
Latimer
Suburb
Latimer was an electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester, England, consisting of the residential suburb of St Marks.
Evington Valley
Locality
Evington Valley is an area in Leicester, England. It is roughly bounded by East Park Road to the west, Chesterfield/Ethel Road to the north, Wakerly Road to the east and to the south borders Stoneygate.
Leicester Athena
- Categories: movie theater and building
- Location: Leicester, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.63532° or 52° 38′ 7″ northLongitude
-1.12666° or 1° 7′ 36″ westOpen location code
9C4WJVPF+48OpenStreetMap ID
way 89555140OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=events_venueOpenStreetMap feature
building=cinemaWikidata ID
Q15242218
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