Park Square, Leeds
[1] In naming the area, the word 'street' was avoided in favour of terms such as 'Row', 'Parade', 'Place' and 'Square', considered more prestigious, as had already been done in Georgian developments such as Bath, Bloomsbury and Bristol.[3] It featured a private garden square and a church, St Paul's, on the south side which offered exclusive pew and interment rights to the residents.[4] However the initial aim of a purely residential area was not maintained when a large warehouse and cloth cutting works, St Paul's House, was built in 1878 for ready-made mass production tailor John Barran on St Paul's Street, with its rear aspect effectively taking up half the south side of the square.In 1938 Rivers House (21 Park Square South) was built on the site in Neo-Georgian style as offices for the Water Board.[7] For much of the 20th century a major feature was a bronze statue by Alfred Drury (1895) of Circe who changed the companions of Odysseus into swine, shown around her feet.
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