Arranged around Queens Square, clockwise from the north, are the Law Courts Building, the Sydney Mint,[1][2] the UNESCO World Heritage Listed Hyde Park Barracks,[3][4] the Land Titles Office,[5] Hyde Park,[6] St James' Church,[7] and Sydney Law School.

Another memorial located on the square is that to Francis Greenway, 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.

[8] Governor Lachlan Macquarie planned a public square on the location in the early nineteenth century.

[9] 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.

[8] Media related to Queen's Square, Sydney at Wikimedia Commons