Not to be confused with Faraday Building (Manchester).
The building's main façade of 26 ½ bays on Queen Victoria Street, also showing part of its narrower front to Godliman StreetThe building's entrance
The Faraday Building is in the south-west of the City of London. The land was first acquired by the General Post Office in the 1870s, for the Post Office Savings Bank. In 1902 it was converted to a GPO telephone exchange serving sections of London, and underwent several capacity expansions over the next several years. The eastern extension of the building stands on the site of Doctors' Commons whose members had lower-courts say in ecclesiastical (including, during its currency, probate and divorce) and admiralty matters.[1]
In 1933 the original building was rebuilt to house the International Telephone Exchange, over doubling the size of the building as a whole. The new building included a raised central portion with decorative turrets which was highly controversial at the time as it blocked the view of St. Paul's Cathedral from the River Thames. This led to a new law that restricted the height of new buildings in London to protect the sightlines of the Cathedral.
Although generally five stories high, the central section and rectangular turrets roughly double that and remain a high point in the area in spite of a century of new building in the area. It fronts Queen Victoria Street and backs onto Knightrider Street. The complex is one narrow block west from Peter's Hill which is the northern footpath to/from the Millennium Bridge; the College of Arms stands in the intervening space.
BT Group (which took over the General Post Office's telephone services in the early 1980s) still uses the building, although today it is rented as general offices and retail space.
^Cite error: The named reference sb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
The FaradayBuilding is in the south-west of the City of London. The land was first acquired by the General Post Office in the 1870s, for the Post Office...
Michael Faraday FRS (/ˈfærədeɪ, -di/; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and...
A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure used to block some electromagnetic fields. A Faraday shield may be formed by a continuous covering of...
Faraday: Faraday (unit), or just faraday – An obsolete unit of charge that has been superseded by the coulomb farad, SI unit of capacitance Faraday balance –...
Faraday Future Inc. is an American startup technology company focused on the development of electric vehicles, founded in 2014. Based in Los Angeles,...
The Michael Faraday Memorial is a monument to the Victorian scientist Michael Faraday. It is located at Elephant Square in Elephant and Castle, London...
Begg Building (Mechanical Engineering), the Maths and Social Sciences Tower, the FaradayBuilding, the Renold Building, and the Barnes Wallis Building, the...
opened the Faraday Museum, a museum dedicated to Michael Faraday. It is in the main building in Albemarle Street and is open to the public during weekday...
Research Buildings Alan Turing Building Arthur Lewis Building Barnes Wallis Building Beyer BuildingFaradayBuilding Grove House Kilburn Building Mathematics...
Dependencies Survey (today British Antarctic Survey) as Argentine Islands. The Faraday Station existed for 49 years and 31 days (7 January 1947 – 6 February 1996)...
Queen Victoria Street and Carter Lane became a telephone exchange; the FaradayBuilding now stands on the site). The Post Office Savings Bank continued to...
Human Sciences Building (Michael Smith Building) (new build) £31 m Humanities Building – now officially called the "Arthur Lewis Building" (new build) £20...
Department in Queen Victoria Street (in what became the FaradayBuilding). In 1910 the King Edward Building was opened on King Edward Street (immediately to...
Square and the Faraday tower, built between 1960 and 1963, for Engineering in the north east corner of Engineering Square. The next building to be completed...
Swansea Gov: Singleton Park Singleton Park map location and accommodation Complete listing of all Listed Buildings within The City and County of Swansea....
Faraday House Electrical Engineering College was created to train engineers in power generation and distribution. It was set up at a time before engineering...
This list of the tallest buildings and structures in Southampton ranks skyscrapers and structures in Southampton, England. Only structures taller than...
fellow. The buildings of Doctors' Commons were sold in 1865 and demolished soon after. The site is now largely occupied by the Faradaybuilding. ‘TRISTRAM...
Beyer building is part of the Old Quadrangle, of the University of Manchester, on Oxford Road, Manchester. The quadrangle comprises the oldest buildings of...
Global Information
