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Armada House, Bristol

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Armada House (grid reference ST587728) (previously known as Nova House) is in Telephone Avenue, Off Baldwin Street, Bristol It was built in 1903 by Henry Williams, and is now used as offices and a conference centre. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.It was formerly the offices of the National Telephone Co.In 1971 one room was equipped by Post Office Telecommunications as a Confravision studio.From 1982 the second floor was used by British Telecommunications as "Telecom TAN", one of the first commercial call centres & messaging bureaux in the UK.

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Armada House, Bristol
Marsh Street, Bristol City Centre

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Lloyds Bank, Bristol
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The Lloyds Bank (grid reference ST587729) is an historic building situated at 53 & 55 Corn Street in Bristol, England. Originally the West of England and South Wales Bank built by Bristol architects William Bruce Gingell (1819–1899) and T.R. Lysaght in 1854. Gingell was one of the most progressive Bristol architects of the latter part of the nineteenth century. He went on to design the General Hospital. Gingell is said to have used St Mark's library in Venice as a starting point for this building. The sumptuous friezes by are by John Thomas (1813–1862). John Thomas had been responsible for overseeing the carving on Charles Barry's new Houses of Parliament. On the ground floor the crests of Newport, Bath, Bristol, Exeter, and Cardiff are shown – the main towns from where the bank operated. On the first floor the ‘elements and sources of wealth’ are symbolised by life-size figures. They include: justice and integrity; education and charity; peace and plenty; art and science; commerce, navigation and commerce. And above this chubby cherubs depict the activities of the bank: receiving, paying, storing, coining money, engraving and printing, and trading with Africa and America. The adornment was intended to emphasize the wealth, and therefore financial stability, of the bank. It didn't stop the bank going bust, however, twenty years later in 1878. The opulent interior features Corinthian columns.It is a grade II* listed building and formerly housed a branch of the Lloyds Bank.It is now a 42-room boutique hotel & luxury spa.