Willis Group Building, 10 Trinity Square, EC3

Looming over the western border of Trinity Square Gardens, near the Tower of London, is the vast and elaborate Willis Group Building, office of insurance company Willis Faber (formerly the Port of London Authority building), which has a history as a film location dating back to 1960, when the army escort for the Sultan’s diamonds starts out from here in the Peter Sellers comedy caper Two Way Stretch.

In 1976, the building became a suitably grand venue for the ‘Oil Producers International Conference’, where we see British delegate Ian Bannen receive a disturbing phone call, at the opening of Sweeney! More recently, the Willis Group Building was seen in 1998’s Liverpool-set music comedy Swing, with Hugo Speer and Lisa Stansfield.

But, most famously, its pillared frontage featured as the mansion of the villainous Manfred Powell (Iain Glen) in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Trivia: the exotically Indianesque interior of Powell’s mansion is nit the Willis Group Building, but Elveden Hall, Suffolk, which you might recognise as the site of the bizarre orgy in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001, dir: Simon West)
Two Way Stretch (1960, dir: Robert Day)
Sweeney! (1977, dir: David Wickes)
Swing (1999, dir: Nick Mead)