Lawrence Buildings

{{Short description|Listed building in Manchester, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2025}}

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| image = Lawrence Building, 2 Mount Street, Manchester 4.JPG

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| image_caption = Lawrence Buildings, Mount Street

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| architectural_style = Gothic Revival

| address = 2 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5WQ

| years_built = 1874–76

| material = Sandstone ashlar

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| architect = Pennington and Bridgen

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| designation1 = Grade II* Listed Building

| designation1_offname = Lawrence Buildings

| designation1_date = 3 October 1974

| designation1_number = {{NHLE|num=1220257|short=y|postscript=none}}

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Lawrence Buildings in Mount Street, Manchester, England, is a Victorian office block constructed for the Inland Revenue in 1874–76 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.{{Cite web|url=http://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-388337-7-manchester|title=Lawrence Buildings, City Centre, 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 chimneys". 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.

{{As of|2024}}, the ground floor is a café, and the remaining building, floors 1–5, are occupied by flexible office space company, incspaces.{{Cite web |last=Whelan |first=Dan |date=22 December 2022 |title=Incspaces takes 11,000 sq ft in Manchester |url=https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/incspaces-takes-11000-sq-ft-in-manchester/ |access-date=14 February 2023 |website=Place North West |language=en-GB}}