Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8397NW DEANSGATE
698-1/30/112 (West side)
17/05/74 Nos.322 TO 330 (Even)
Castlefield Information Centre
(formerly Deansgate Free Library)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.322 TO 330 Deansgate Free Library
DEANSGATE.
Includes: No.2 LIVERPOOL ROAD.
Library over shops, now visitor' centre and urban studies
centre.1882, by George Meek; altered. Red brick with sandstone
dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan with curved corners to
the front. Romanesque style. Two storeys (the upper much
higher), 7 bays including the corners; square stone piers to
ground floor, plus cast-iron columns at the corners, frieze
and cornice over ground floor, sill-band and panelled
pilasters to 1st floor, plain brick frieze, moulded cornice
with blocking course interrupted in the 3 centre bays by a
stone frieze, bracketed cornice and enriched parapet with
central carved pediment. The 4th bay at ground floor is an
open entrance to a lateral through-passage, furnished with
iron gates and with a segmental pediment above containing
carved figures; immediately to the right is a round-headed
doorway moulded in 2 orders, with shafts, and the other bays
have glazed screens. At 1st floor each bay has large stepped
triple window treated as an arcade of round-headed arches,
with stone shafts which have carved capitals, geometrical
glazing bars, and hoodmoulds, that over the main entrance with
a panelled arch-band above. Quadrantal corners with 5-bay
arcades carried round, and 2-bay returned ends in matching
style. Rear linked to former Higher Campfield Market Hall,
Liverpool Road (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8341997715

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Instituto Cervantes at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26496616

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5