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{{Short description|Public square in Sydney, Australia}}
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| caption                 = View across Queens Square from inside the gates of [[Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney|Hyde Park Barracks]] towards [[St. James Church, Sydney|St James' Church]]. The Supreme Court building is to the right, and the statues of [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]], and [[Hyde Park, Sydney|Hyde Park]], are to the left.
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'''Queens Square''' is a [[public square]] in central Sydney, Australia. The square is located at the junction of [[King Street, Sydney|King Street]] with [[Phillip Street, Sydney|Phillip Street]] and [[Macquarie Street, Sydney|Macquarie Street]]. It is bounded on the south by St James Road and Prince Albert Road. 

==Description==
[[Image:Supremecourtnsw.jpg|thumb|left|[[Law Courts Building, Sydney|Law Courts Building]]. The open space on the right is the northern end of Queen's Square.]]
Arranged around Queens Square, clockwise from the north, are the [[Law Courts Building, Sydney|Law Courts Building]], the [[Sydney Mint]],<ref>{{cite NSW SHR|5045151|Mint Building|fn=S90/01189; S96/00465 [S170]|access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite NSW SHR|5045802|Mint Building and Hyde Park Barracks Group|fn=EF10/20645; S90/1189;S96/465|access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref> the [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage List]]ed [[Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney|Hyde Park Barracks]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=UNESCO World Heritage Centre World Heritage Committee inscribes seven cultural sites on World Heritage List |work=UNESCO World Heritage Centre website |publisher=United Nations |date=31 July 2010 |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/642 |access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite NSW SHR|5045722|Hyde Park Barracks|fn=S90/01189; S96/00465 [S170]|access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref> the [[Registrar-General's building|Land Titles Office]],<ref>{{cite NSW SHR|5045050|Land Titles Office|fn=S90/07488; S95/00332 [S170]|access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref> [[Hyde Park, Sydney|Hyde Park]],<ref>{{cite NSW SHR|5060189|Hyde Park|fn=EF14/5442; 11/9843; S91/1057/2|access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref> [[St James' Church, Sydney|St James' Church]],<ref>{{cite NSW SHR|5054947|St. James' Anglican Church|access-date=17 November 2013}}</ref> and [[Sydney Law School]]. These buildings, other than the Law Courts Building and Sydney Law School, are all [[heritage register|heritage-listed]] constructions, mostly dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Named in honour of [[Queen Victoria]], a statue erected in her honour stands on the south-western corner of the square, and faces northward towards the Law Courts building. Another statue, of [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]], stands on the south-eastern corner, and faces across Macquarie Street towards the statue of the Queen. Another memorial located on the square is that to [[Francis Greenway]], [[New South Wales Government Architect|NSW Colonial Architect]] responsible for some of the surrounding buildings, which is a mosaic and relief set into the ground in front of the Law Courts Building.

Being a public square adjacent to the [[Supreme Court of New South Wales|state's Supreme Court]], and also close to [[Parliament House, Sydney|Parliament House]], the square is often the scene of political and individual protests.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}

[[St. James railway station, Sydney|St James Station]] is located underground to the south of the square, accessible by a pedestrian underpass below St James Road.<ref name=sc/>

==History==

Governor [[Lachlan Macquarie]] planned a public square on the location in the early nineteenth century. The square was originally named Kings Square, but was renamed Queens Square when Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837.<ref name=visit>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitsydneyaustralia.com.au/queens-square.html|title=Queen's Square|publisher=Visit Sydney Australia|year=2017}}</ref> The statue of Queen Victoria was unveiled by Lady Carrington, the wife of the [[Governor of New South Wales]] in 1888, for Australia's centenary. It was in the middle of a circle of roads, which soon became a loop of tramways.<ref name=visit/> In the late 1970s when the [[Supreme Court of New South Wales|Law Courts Building]] was constructed, King Street was terminated at its junction with Phillip Street, and the former thoroughfare between Phillip Street and Macquarie Street became part of the square.<ref name=sc>{{cite web |url=http://www.supremecourt.justice.nsw.gov.au/Pages/sco2_aboutus/sco2_history/sco2_new_premises.aspx |title=Law Courts building |work=[[Supreme Court of New South Wales]] |publisher=[[Government of New South Wales]] |date=27 March 2017 |access-date=24 October 2017 }}</ref>

== See also ==
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* [[List of places named after Queen Victoria#Australia|List of places named after Queen Victoria in Australia]]
* [[Architecture of Sydney]]

==References==
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== External links ==
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{{Streets of Sydney Australia}}

[[Category:Sydney localities]]
[[Category:Monuments and memorials to Queen Victoria]]
[[Category:1977 establishments in Australia]]
[[Category:King Street, Sydney]]
[[Category:Squares in Sydney]]


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