Architecture of Manchester
The architecture of Manchester demonstrates a rich variety of architectural styles. The city is a product of the
.Manchester burgeoned as a result of the
The
Manchester was granted
History
The
There has been a church on the site of
preserves some of the city's oldest buildings of their type. The original site of the Shambles was the location of butchers' shops and abattoirs.In the 16th century domestic cloth weaving became important, and an Act of Parliament regulated the length of Manchester Cottons (which were actually woollens) to 22 yards. By 1641 Manchester was producing both cotton and linen cloth. A bequest from wealthy cloth merchant, Humphrey Chetham was responsible for the Chetham's School and Library in the mediaeval collegiate building.[17] St Ann's Church, attributed to Wren or one of his pupils,[18] was built in 1712 in St Ann's Square which became the fashionable area of town. Seven other churches were built during the 18th century, none of which survives.[19] St James Square (1735) was built by the Jacobites. Planned development occurred in the 1750s between Market Street, Cross Street, King Street and Mosley Street.[20]
Relatively few houses in the city centre survive from the Georgian era, one is Richard Cobden's townhouse from the 1770s.[21] Another survival is row of three-storey town houses built in red brick with sandstone dressings, now used as shops and offices in Princess Street.[22] Terraced houses were built on Byrom Street and Quay Street for the middle classes at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries but few dwellings for the working classes survive except for a few north of Piccadilly Gardens and in Castlefield. Houses built for artisans and skilled workers had attic workshops housing handlooms for weaving.[23] Other city-centre dwellings had cellars and attics but none survive.[24]
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The mediaeval Hanging Bridge excavated in Victorian times.
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mediaevalera.
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Shambles Square as rebuilt
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St Ann's Church dates from 1712.
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County Court was built in 1770.
Post-Industrial Revolution
Transport and industry
The Industrial Revolution gathered momentum after the Bridgewater Canal was opened to Castlefield on 10 July 1761.[25] The canal brought coal to the town from Worsley and when in 1776 it had been extended, cotton could be shipped into the town from the Port of Liverpool. At Castlefield Basin are a series of early warehouses, such as the Dukes Warehouse and the Grocers Warehouse. By 1800 the Bridgewater at Castlefield was connected to the Rochdale Canal and beyond that to the Ashton Canal.[26] On the Ashton Canal the Store Street Aqueduct designed by Benjamin Outram, is believed to be the first skewed aqueduct of its kind and the oldest still in use[27] and a brick lock-keeper's cottage constructed about 1800 survives by Number 2 Lock.[28]
The canals shaped the layout of the city attracting wharves and warehouses, transporting coal and heavy materials and provided water to run
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The Bridgewater Canal and the remains of the Grocer's Warehouse in Castlefield
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The Rochdale Canal in Ancoats and Murrays' Mills built 1797–1804
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The Dale Street Warehouse built in 1806.
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Store Street Aqueduct, which carries the Ashton Canal
Manchester was linked to Salford across the River Irwell by a ford and subsequently by Salford Old Bridge in the 14th century. During the 19th century more bridges were built. The old bridge was replaced by Victoria Bridge which has a single arch of about 100 feet span constructed from sandstone in 1839.[31] Other Victorian bridges over the Irwell are the three-arched Blackfriars Bridge,[32] the skew arched Albert Bridge[33] and the wrought iron Palatine Bridge.[34]
Modern bridges include the
The
The
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Oxford Road Station
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Manchester Central railway station, now a conference centre
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Deansgate Station
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Facade of Victoria Station
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Piccadilly Station from above
Public buildings
Manchester's first town hall, designed by Francis Goodwin, was constructed during 1822–25 in the neo-classical style with a screen of Ionic columns.[45] Its facade was re-erected as a folly in Heaton Park at the west end of its lake in 1913.[46] Manchester was granted a Charter of Incorporation in 1838.[47] Classical architecture gave way to
Waterhouse was influenced by
The
Acres Fair moved to Castlefield in 1872 and after it was abolished, the market traders remained at Lower Campfield Market and Higher Campfield Market[54] which were later covered by large, glazed buildings with cast-iron frames by Mangnall and Littlewood. Lower Campfield Market is now the Air and Space Gallery of the Museum of Science and Industry.[55]
London Road Fire Station of 1906 was designed in the
In the 1930s Vincent Harris won competitions to design two of the city's civic buildings. Manchester Town Hall Extension between St Peter's Square and Lloyd Street was built between 1934 and 1938 to provide accommodation for local government services.[58] Its eclectic style was designed to be a link between the ornate Gothic Revival Town Hall and the classical rotunda of the Central Library built four years earlier.[59]
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The Free Trade Hall
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The French Gothic gatehouse ofStrangeways Prisonby Alfred Waterhouse.
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London Road Fire Station opened in 1903.
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The ornate façade of Victoria Baths
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Town Hall Extension and tram
Education and culture
Education and culture became important in Georgian times leading to the construction of buildings that endure today. The
As Manchester emerged as the world's first industrial city, a
The Manchester School of Art was built in two stages, the main building is by G.T.Redmayne in the Neo-Gothic style in stone with gabled wings and pinnacles and an 1897 rear extension by Joseph Gibbon Sankey in red brick and terracotta with Art Nouveau decoration.[70]
The
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ThePortico Library
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Manchester Athenaeum
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TheJohn Rylands Libraryopened 1900.
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Whitworth Hallopened in 1902.
Commerce
The commercial hub of Manchester or
Early
Warehouses were built into the 20th century, many in the highly decorated
From the early 19th century residential
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Asia House, opened in 1909
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Lancaster House, opened in 1910
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Lloyds Bank opened in 1915
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38 and 42 Mosley Street, opened in 1880
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Lutyens' Midland Bank on King Street
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The futuristicart deco Daily Express Building
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Sunlight House on Quay Street
Places of worship
The medieval parish church was altered and rebuilt between 1814 and 1815. It became a cathedral in 1847 and was extensively restored and rebuilt by J.P. Holden between 1862 and 1868, by J. S. Crowther in the 1880s and in 1898 by Basil Champneys who added annexes in 1903.[8]
In 1828 the Quakers built their Meeting House in Mount Street. Designed by Richard Lane it has an ashlar facade and a three-bay pedimented Ionic portico with a frieze.[87]
Victorian churches, particularly those of the Roman Catholics, espoused the Gothic principles of
In the late 19th century the large Jewish community around
The Church of Christ, Scientist in Fallowfield, designed by Edgar Wood opened in 1907. Nikolaus Pevsner considered it "the only religious building in Lancashire that would be indispensable in a survey of twentieth century church design in all England."[93] and "one of the most original buildings of that time in England, or indeed anywhere."[94]
Modernism
After World War II, work to rebuild war-damaged Manchester began and the transition from warehouse to office blocks accelerated as the city's industrial prowess waned. Few aesthetically memorable buildings were constructed in the 1950s and 1960s,[95] but some grew into landmarks for the city.
The first major building constructed after the war was the Granada Studios complex designed by Ralph Tubbs in 1954.[96] The studios' notable features were a lattice tower and red, neon sign.
When the 118-metre tall
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The CIS Tower (1962) was the tallest listed building in the UK
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The wavy frontage of Gateway House (1969)
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The formerUMISTCampus consists of many Modernist buildings built in the 1960s
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The Grade II Toast Rack building (1960)
New millennium architecture
After the destruction caused by the
The Manchester Civil Justice Centre was built in 2007 in Spinningfields - Manchester's new business district. It has been well received by architecture critics who praised its aesthetics, environmental credentials and structural quality. The Guardian architecture critic Owen Hatherley described it as a "genuinely striking building".[102]
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Urbis, 2002
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The City of Manchester Stadium, completed in 2001
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Alan Turing Building, 2007
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No. 1 Deansgate, 2001
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One Angel Square under construction, 2013
Monuments and sculpture
In Manchester are monuments to people and events that have shaped the city and influenced the wider community. Two squares holding many public monuments are
Notable monuments elsewhere in the city include the
Thomas Heatherwick's B of the Bang was a 56 metres (184 ft)-high metal sculpture commissioned for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Erected near the City of Manchester Stadium in Eastlands, the sculpture was beset by structural problems and dismantled in 2009.[103]
Streets and plazas
Manchester has a number of squares, plazas and shopping streets many of which are pedestrianised and other streets have
One of the oldest thoroughfares is
Other notable places in Manchester include:
.Architects
The
Manchester has historically had a large architecture practice presence in comparison to other British cities however this presence burgeoned during the redevelopment of the city since the
More recently, practices such as
See also
- Manchester cotton warehouses
- Tallest buildings in Manchester
- Warehouses in Manchester
- Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester
- Listed buildings in Manchester-M1
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External links
- Modernist Manchester Manchester Archives+
- A tour of Manchester's architecture, courtesy of BBC Learning Zone