Leicester Athena

Athena is a Grade II-listed events venue in the cultural quarter of Leicester City Centre, . 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.
  • 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.

Theater building
, also known as Theatre, is a theatre in , England, based in the cultural quarter in Leicester City Centre. Previously, it had been called Leicester Performing Arts Centre.

Railway station
is a main line railway station in the city of , in , England. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway and owned by Network Rail. is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Leicester Athena.

Place of worship
is a Grade II listed building in , England. It was built in 1881 for the city's Secular Society. The Co. is situated 590 feet northwest of Leicester Athena.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bede Island and Latimer.

Suburb
is an area of , close to the city centre, with the to the west and to the east. For many years 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.

Suburb
was an electoral ward and administrative division of the city of , , consisting of the residential suburb of St Marks.

Locality
is an area in , . 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 .

Leicester Athena

Latitude
52.63532° or 52° 38′ 7″ north
Longitude
-1.12666° or 1° 7′ 36″ west
Open location code
9C4WJVPF+48
Open­Street­Map ID
way 89555140
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­events_venue
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­cinema
Wiki­data ID
Q15242218
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