The Academy Cinema is a historic building on Cheltenham Road, Bristol

Bristol

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, England

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It was built in 1914 in an Edwardian Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 style. It closed as a cinema in 1955 and became a Christadelphian Hall or chapel. More recently it was adapted for use as a bar under the name The Magic Box. It has since been refurbished as a new venue for Jesters Comedy Club.

It has been designated by English Heritage

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 as a grade II listed building.