City Museum

The City Museum is a museum built in 1902 by Colson, Farrow and Nisbett. It features knapped flint with freestone dressings and a Welsh slate mansard roof with a glazed ridge light. The building has flint and freestone lateral stacks with weathered caps and is rectangular in plan, with an entrance vestibule at the west end that contains stairs.

The exterior is two storeys tall, with an attic and basement. The symmetrical west front has recessed curved corners and features three-light mullion-transom windows. The central doorway has a four-centred arch with carved spandrels, side-lights, and a label with carved stops. Above the doorway is a large three-light window with painted shields in the lower lights, topped by a small gable with chequer-pattern flushwork. The north and south sides each have three bays with large three-light mullion-transom windows, featuring four-centred arch lights on the first floor and hoodmoulds. All stone mullion windows have leaded panes.

Inside, the entrance vestibule includes stone stairs with plain iron balusters, a moulded handrail, and a Jacobethan style newel post with a carved heraldic lion and shield finial. The attic is open to moulded queen-post roof trusses. This well-designed Tudor style public building is prominently located in the city centre near the Cathedral.