Modern civic plaza designed in 1997 - 1998 by Sheffield City Council Design and Property Services. Originally created as a public area in commemoration of the Munich agreement of 1938 following the demolition of St Paul's Church which had occupied this site from 1720-1937 (Harman and Minnis 2004). Belford (1997) and Scurfield (1986) both interpret this area as farmland on the southern fringe of medieval Sheffield prior to the construction of the 'New' (St Paul's) church depicted by Gosling in 1736. Fragmentary legibility only of the approximate area covered by the churchyard of the former church.