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Latitude: 53.4922 / 53°29'31"N
Longitude: -2.2456 / 2°14'44"W
OS Eastings: 383800
OS Northings: 399527
OS Grid: SJ838995
Mapcode National: GBR DJC.F4
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.GHW5
Plus Code: 9C5VFQR3+VP
Entry Name: Gatehouse of Hmp Manchester
Listing Date: 3 October 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1254670
English Heritage Legacy ID: 457638
ID on this website: 101254670
Location: Strangeways, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M60
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Cheetham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Higher Broughton St James
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Gatehouse
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 December 2016.
SJ8399
698-1/14/576
03/10/74
MANCHESTER
SOUTHALL STREET, Cheetham
(North side)
Gatehouse of HMP Manchester
(Formerly Listed as: Gatehouse of Strangeways Gaol)
II
GV
Gatehouse of gaol. 1866-8, by Alfred Waterhouse. Red brick
with sandstone dressings and steeply-pitched slate roofs.
Irregular plan. French Gothic style. Three storeys and 3 bays
plus 2-storey 3-bay wing to left. The principal element,
consisting of a central entrance archway flanked by
semi-octagonal turrets, has battered sandstone rubble plinths
to the turrets, plain stone bands and a 1st floor
string-course, emphaticlly bracketed eaves, octagonal-conical
roofs to the turrets, and 2 tall chimneys on the central
ridge. The 2-storey centre has a large round-headed arch
moulded in 3 orders, with massive double doors and a plain
fanlight, and a round-headed niche at 1st floor containing the
Royal Arms, flanked by single-light windows; the 3-storey
turrets have single-light windows diminishing in the height,
with iron bar grilles to all floors of the right-hand turret
and ground floor of the left turret. Two storey wing to left,
in matching style, including bay window to left and gabled
porch to right.
Listing NGR: SJ8380099527
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