Description

LEEDS

SE2933SE CITY SQUARE
714-1/77/109 (West side)
22/03/74 General Post Office with basement
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CITY SQUARE
The General Post Office)

GV II

Includes: No.10 Norwich Union House QUEBEC STREET.
Post Office premises. 1896. By Sir Henry Tanner. Ashlar, slate
and lead roofs; cast-iron railings. Classical style. Principal
facade to City Square has a wide central bay of 3 storeys and
attic, the ground floor rising through 2 storeys of the
flanking 4-storey, 3-bay ranges; all over basements. Bays 1,
3, 5 and 7 project slightly and are topped by a small pediment
flanked by octagonal domed turrets and tall corniced chimney
with arched links; between are semicircular pedimented gables
flanked with urns.
Ground floor centre: a shallow splayed Roman Doric arcade of 5
arches, original wood-framed round-arched windows carved with
Ionic columns; flanking entrances have paired Ionic columns
and pediments over supported on console brackets with carved
Classical figures holding writing instruments at sides. 1st
floor divided by Corinthian pilasters, the centre 4 attached
columns with sculpted draped figures representing Art and
Science between 2nd-floor windows; 1st-floor windows have
moulded architraves, segmental pediments and segmental bowed
balustered balconies; 2nd-floor windows plain rectangular with
flat pilasters between. Moulded cornices at each floor level;
modillion eaves cornice and parapet; 5 wooden pedimented
dormers. Tall slender clock tower centre, angle pilasters,
pediments, corner urns, octagonal domed cupola.
Left return, No.10 Quebec Street: plainer style, 3, 2, 3, 7, 3
round-arched windows to ground floor, the 3-window bays
slightly projecting with pedimented gables; central pedimented
dormer window flanked by corniced chimneys.
Right return, Infirmary Street: gable end and 1 bay of
original east wing remain; panelled door far right, attached
columns support pediment.
INTERIOR: Ionic columns with swags mirroring those outside.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to front, left and right
returns: panels with scrolls and flowers, urn finials.

Listing NGR: SE2986433471

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655836

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