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Lawrence Buildings in Mount Street, Manchester, England, is a Victorian office block constructed for the Inland Revenue in 1874–6 by Pennington and Bridgen in the Gothic Revival style.〔Hartwell 2001, p 175〕 It is a Grade II * listed building as of 3 October 1974.〔http://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-388337-7-manchester〕 The building is of sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. Its skyline is dramatic, with "tourelles and slated spirelet, tall crocketed gable(s), low dormers and tall chimmneys".〔 Heavily decorated, it displays a statue of Queen Victoria beneath a canopy on the central front, together with a doorcase flanked by "a lion and a unicorn on pedestals, with an elaborate two-storey oriel window above".〔 Lawrence Buildings forms a group with St Andrew's Chambers, to the right, in a similar style.〔 The ground floor is now a restaurant, with mostly vacant offices above. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lawrence Buildings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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