Victoria Park, Manchester
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Victoria Park is a suburban area of Manchester, England. Victoria Park lies approximately two miles south of Manchester city centre, between Rusholme and Longsight.
History and description
In 1836, a unique enterprise was undertaken by
The early years of the 'Victoria Park Company' were of mixed fortune. The original plans to develop land in a slightly different area, did not reach complete fruition, largely due to the fraud which led to the
The focus of the second, successful phase shifted to the better-quality land now known as Victoria Park. Professional people moved into the large houses, and from the earliest days a wide variety of nationalities was represented, notably a wealthy
Individual buildings
The area has over 20 listed buildings and among its many significant buildings is the notable Grade I listed First Church of Christ, Scientist (now the Edgar Wood Centre) in Daisy Bank Road, the work of the Middleton architect Edgar Wood. Also of significance are Summerville on Daisy Bank Road; Hirstwood by Edward Salomons; Alfred Waterhouse's Xaverian College; and St Chrysostom's Church, the Anglican parish church designed by George T Redmayne at the corner of Oxford Place and Anson Road. St Chrysostom's Church backs onto the University of Manchester's Dalton-Ellis Hall, one of the older halls of residence at the university of Manchester Redmayne was the architect of the original Dalton Hall.
The
Victoria Park Campus of the university comprises several halls of residence. Among these are
Church history
A church was included in the line drawings issued by Lane in 1836. The building was started in the 1840s but was abandoned because the Victoria Park Company went bankrupt. Victoria Park was from 1850 included in the parish of St James, Birch, until 1878, when the new parish of St John Chrysostom was created from parts of the parish of St James and other parishes.
Notable residents
- Ford Madox Brown, artist
- Richard Cobden, political activist
- Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
- Winston Graham, novelist
- George Hadfield, politician
- Charles Hallé, musician
- Gerald Bernard Kaufman, politician
- Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette
- Richard Pankhurst, politician
- Genesis P-Orridge, performance artist and occultist
- Edward Salomons, architect
- Sir Arthur Schuster, physicist
See also
References
- ^ Victoria Park Conservation Area History, Manchester City Council, retrieved 18 October 2012
- ^ "Hulme Hall, Oxford Place, Victoria Park, Rusholme, Manchester". Architects of Greater Manchester 1800–1940. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
Further reading
- Cronin, Jill & Rhodes, Frank (2006) Rusholme and Victoria Park. Stroud: Tempus ISBN 0-7524-4198-1
- [Leech, E. Bosdin] (1937) A Short Account of the Victoria Park, Manchester. Manchester: Victoria Park Committee, in commemoration of the centenary of the opening of the park on 31 July 1837
- Spiers, Maurice (1976) Victoria Park, Manchester: a nineteenth-century suburb in its social and administrative context. (Remains ... 3rd series; vol. 23.) Manchester: Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society ISBN 0-7190-1333-X
- Spiers, Maurice (1961) Victoria Park, Manchester: a study of its administration and its relations with local government, 1836–1954. Thesis (M.A.) - University of Manchester