Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW BARLOW MOOR ROAD, Barlow Moor
698-1/8/496 (North East side)
Registrar's Office at Manchester
Southern Cemetery

GV II

Registrar's office to cemetery. 1879. Coursed sandstone rubble
with ashlar dressings, slate roofs with red cockscomb ridge
tiles. Irregular plan with rectangular main block, set-back
east wing, and tower in angle. Gothic style. Two storeys with
one storey wing and 3-stage tower. Main block has 2 gabled
dormers and a gabled wing to the right; tower projecting from
right-hand return wall has 2-centred arched doorway and low
buttress at ground floor, single-light window to 1st floor,
and set-back octagonal top stage with clock faces in the
cardinal sides and arched lancets in the others, and a short
slated spire. Single-storey east wing to rear of this
(containing office), with canted bay window to gable end.
Forms group with entrance gateway and lodge to east (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8273292380

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492245

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)