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Latitude: 53.7993 / 53°47'57"N
Longitude: -1.541 / 1°32'27"W
OS Eastings: 430328
OS Northings: 433759
OS Grid: SE303337
Mapcode National: GBR BKK.JV
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.9RFS
Plus Code: 9C5WQFX5+PH
Entry Name: Former The Odeon Cinema
Listing Date: 15 October 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255903
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465469
Also known as: Odeon Cinema
Paramount Theatre
ID on this website: 101255903
Location: The Leylands, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Leeds City
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Cinema
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 August 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE3033NW
714-1/76/388
LEEDS
THE HEADROW (North side)
Nos.14-20 (Even)
Former The Odeon Cinema
(Formerly listed as The Odeon Cinema)
15/10/93
GV
II
Cinema and shops. 1930-32. Exterior designed as part of The Headrow development by Sir Reginald Blomfield, interior by Frank T Verity, altered 1969, 1978 and 1988. Steel-framed, faced in red brick, Portland stone dressings, slate roofs. Classical style. Four storeys, seventeen windows. Rusticated ashlar ground floor with shop fronts. Upper three floors have ashlar pavilions with giant Doric pilasters and moulded ashlar window surrounds at bays one, eleven and seventeen. The whole topped by a balustrade and crowning urns.
Corner entrance to cinema: original fenestration and decoration survives but now obscured by later C20 signboards.
INTERIOR: no original features remain.
(Heap, A: The Headrow, a pictorial history: Leeds: 1990-: 43).
Listing NGR: SE3032833766
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