Oriel Chambers is the world's first building featuring a metal framed glass curtain wall. Designed by architect Peter Ellis and built in 1864, it is located on Water Street. Due to its outstanding importance, it has been grade I listed

The plainest brick warehouse in town is infinitely superior as a building to the large agglomeration of protruding plate-glass bubbles in Water Street termed Oriel Chambers.

Did we not see this vast abortion - which would be depressing were it not ludicrous - with our eyes, we should have doubted the possibility of its existence. Where and in what are their beauties supposed to lie?