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Latitude: 53.4807 / 53°28'50"N
Longitude: -2.2398 / 2°14'23"W
OS Eastings: 384184
OS Northings: 398241
OS Grid: SJ841982
Mapcode National: GBR DKH.P8
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.KSN1
Plus Code: 9C5VFQJ6+73
Entry Name: Colwyn Chambers
Listing Date: 25 April 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197929
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388327
Also known as: 24-30 Mosley Street
ID on this website: 101197929
Location: City Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M2
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: City Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester St Ann
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
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MANCHESTER
SJ8498SW MOSLEY STREET
698-1/28/238 (West side)
25/04/85 Nos.24 TO 30 (Even)
Colwyn Chambers (17 and 19 York
Street)
GV II
Includes: Nos.17 AND 19 YORK STREET.
Formerly headquarters of Lancashire Mercantile Bank, now
variously occupied by shops, restaurant and offices. 1898, by
J.Gibbon Sankey; altered. Portland stone with polished granite
to ground floor, slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block
site, with chamfered corners. Neo-Baroque style. Four storeys
and 3 principal bays to both facades, plus the corners; with
high ground floor of channelled rustication, 3-bay giant Ionic
colonnades in antis to 1st and 2nd floors, very prominent
enriched cornice to 3rd floor, 3-sided corners carried up to
domed octagonal turrets, the angles pilastered and finished
with volutes to the set-back lanterns. The corner entrances
are round-headed, and have elaborate architraves including
pairs of Ionic columns with crouching atlantes on top
supporting open segmental pediments, and outer security gates
with decorative Art Nouveau ironwork. The windows at ground
are mostly altered; those to the upper floors of the 3 main
bays have 3 lights at 1st and 2nd floors, 4 lights at 3rd
floor, those at the corners are 1-light; and at the right-hand
end of the Mosley Street facade is one bay which has a
square-headed doorway at ground floor, 2-light windows to the
upper floors in a segmental-arched recess, and a segmental
cornice. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8418498241
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