1846 – Platt Church, Manchester, Lancashire
The architect’s second “pot church”, so-called because the main building material used in the construction of the church is terracotta.
The architect’s second “pot church”, so-called because the main building material used in the construction of the church is terracotta.
A temporary exhibition structure built to hold the ‘Art Treasures of Great Britain”
From The Building News, September 19, 1862: The engraving on the opposite side represents the Manchester and Salford Bank which is just being erected.
From The Building News, August 8, 1862: This building, which has been erected by the Royal Insurance Company,
Designed by Alfred Waterhouse in the neo-Gothic style, construction began in 1859 and was completed in 1864.
Formed as The Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks’ Orphan Schools in 1855, moved to this site in 1869,
From The Builder: “We give a view of the Club building now in course of erection in Manchester.
Competition entry for new Conservative Club in Manchester, published in The Building News, November 7 1873.
Manchester Corporation decided in the early 1870s to replace the city’s main fish market in Strangeways with a new one located near Shudehill,
John Owens, a Manchester textile merchant, bequeathed £96,942 in 1846 for the purpose of founding a college for the education of males on non-sectarian lines.