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Latitude: 53.5406 / 53°32'26"N
Longitude: -2.109 / 2°6'32"W
OS Eastings: 392871
OS Northings: 404889
OS Grid: SD928048
Mapcode National: GBR FWQH.6J
Mapcode Global: WHB9B.K8XK
Plus Code: 9C5VGVRR+69
Entry Name: Library and Art Gallery
Listing Date: 8 March 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1282573
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388948
Also known as: Gallery Oldham
ID on this website: 101282573
Location: Rhodes Bank, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL1
County: Oldham
Electoral Ward/Division: Coldhurst
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Oldham
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Oldham St Mary with St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Art museum Library building
OLDHAM
SD9204NE UNION STREET
780-1/6/82 (South side)
Library and Art Gallery
GV II
Library and Art Gallery. 1883 with additions of 1894.
Rusticated rubble, coursed and squared in small blocks. Red
plain tiled roof with ridge cresting.
High 2 storeys, symmetrically planned with central entrance
gable and flanking blocks, each of 3 bays. Steps up to
Romanesque style entrance with squat shafts carrying round
arch, and low relief in tympanum. Shallow oriel with leaded
trefoiled lights, city arms and inscription in frieze above.
Gable coping surmounted by statue.
Gable returns are linked to flanking blocks by full-height
segmental bays in the angles with 2-light windows on each
floor. Flanking blocks each of 3 windows, with tall
segmentally-arched mullioned and transomed ground floor
windows with stained glass in lower panes. Upper windows are
trefoiled mullioned and transomed lights, and the central
window cuts into gabled dormer with rose window. The gable of
the dormer is carried on stumpy shafts. End wall stacks.
Gable returns each have central stack corbelled out over first
floor with rose windows to each side of it.
Behind this frontage entrance block, 2 parallel rear wings
comprise main galleries. High ground floor divided by
buttresses into 6 bays each with segmentally-arched window,
then high relief busts of artists and literary figures beneath
timber clerestory which has overhanging eaves carried on
paired timber shafts.
Lower 3-bay block beyond has eastern entrance in gabled porch,
inscribed "Lecture Hall" over doorway.
Cast-iron railings with stone plinth wall and terminal piers
flanking entrance steps carrying cast-iron globe lamps.
Listing NGR: SD9287104889
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