PostGlossary Term [1] Office. Sir Henry Tanner, 1896. Grade II.
Cross Infirmary Street to the north side of the Square and the second corner site building:
- Norwich House, no. 1 City Square, 1997 by Abbey Hanson Rowe.
Cross Park Row to reach:
- Priestley House, No.1 Park Row, 1996-7 by Fletcher Joseph Architects. It stands on the site of Priestley Hall. This was the school attached to Mill Hill chapel, and designed by its architect, Crowther in a churchy 15th century GothicGlossary Term [2].
- The Mill Hill Unitarian Chapel was designed in 1847-8 by Bowman and Crowther of Manchester. It shows the influence of the parish church of 1838-41 by R. Dennis Chantrell and marks the change from the GeorgianGlossary Term [3] classicalGlossary Term [4] to the Victorian GothicGlossary Term [5] allegiance among Nonconformist chapels. Grade II*
- Exchange House: c.1965 by Kitson, Pyman and Partners. Pevsner declared 'The character of City Square has been much changed by three new buildings of a scale new to the square' and regarded this as the best of the three - 'the podiumGlossary Term [6] curves well into Boar Lane'.
Cross Boar Lane to reach the third corner site building:
- The premises of the Yorkshire District Banking Company, now a bar, by W.W.Gwyther 1899. Grade II.
Cross Bishopgate Street to returnGlossary Term [7] to the Queen's Hotel.
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- [3] http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/#default_716
- [4] http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/#default_518
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- [6] http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/#default_997
- [7] http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/#default_1067