Art Deco cinema saved from conversion into a hotel

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A former theatre turned cinema in the West End has been saved from conversion into a hotel after Camden council rejected an appeal from the developer.

What is today the Odeon Covent Garden was originally opened in 1931 as the Saville Theatre and is particularly notable for the stone frieze that runs around the building and the grand arched entrance decoration sitting in s solid wall of rusticated brickwork.

 

Source: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/03/11/art-deco-cinema-saved-from-conversion-into-a-hotel/