Description

OLDHAM

SD9204NE UNION STREET
780-1/6/83 (North side)
23/01/73 Lyceum and School of Art

GV II

Lyceum and Art School. Built in a single block and to a common
style, the Lyceum in 1856, the Art School (to the right) added
in 1881. Pennington of Manchester the original architect.
Ashlar, rusticated to ground floor, Welsh slate roof.
The 2 buildings form a strongly symmetrical range, differing
only in small details. Each is 2-storeyed, a 7-window range
with central entrance.
Lyceum (to the left) has round-arched doorway with rusticated
and chamfered stonework each side, and paired 8-panelled doors
in slightly advanced architrave enriched with low-relief
carving.
Three 2-pane sashes each side of entrance, and round-arched
upper windows with low relief panelling above and below
forming a continuous arcade at first floor level. Laurel
wreaths in low relief above the windows, and Greek key frieze.
Elaborate tripartite window over entrance, with foliate
capitals to architrave, round-arched central light, and
segmental glazing forming outer arch. Cast-iron balconette.
Modillions and foliate emblems form cornice over this bay,
which has a shallow segmental pediment inscribed "Lyceum".
Urns surmount the panelled parapet.
Art School similarly detailed, differing only in the entrance
bay, which has a plainer squared architrave and overlight,
with heavily rusticated piers. Pediment over this bay
inscribed "Science and Art".
Return elevations to Clegg Street and Greaves Street similarly
detailed. Heavy decorated cast-iron railings on low plinth
wall with stone piers at angles and each side of entrance
steps, surmounted by cast-iron globe lamps.
The Lyceum was built to include newsroom, reading room and
library, lecture rooms, committee and club rooms, class rooms
and observatory.

Listing NGR: SD9273604906

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497356

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)