Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398NE HANGING DITCH
698-1/26/157 (North side)
30/03/73 Former Corn and Produce Exchange
(Formerly Listed as:
FENNEL STREET
(South side)
Corn Exchange)

GV II

Corn exchange with shops and offices, now market hall with
shops and offices. Dated 1903. Iron frame with cladding of
sandstone ashlar, slate roof with glazed atrium. Very large
curved triangular plan on island site. Baroque style. Four
diminishing storeys with basement and attic (east corner of
different build and lower), 14 bays (plus 7-window east end),
the bays divided by piers which finish as tall chimneys, the 3
western bays slightly lower and finished with a domed cupola
at the corner, the next 11 bays forming a symmetrical
composition with the centre and ends breaking forwards
slightly and carried up to shaped gables above the attic. The
projected centre bay has the main entrance, a giant elliptical
archway in triumphal-arch form with coupled pilasters of
polished pink granite with debased Ionic capitals, corniced
entablatures to these, and a banded head with keystone, and
containing a pedimented doorway with similar columns and
frieze lettered "PRODUCE EXCHANGE". The upper levels of this
portion have (inter alia) 3 windows to each floor including
the attic, with various forms of decoration including a
colonnade to the top floor, pulvinated frieze and prominent
mutule cornice, and a pedimented Baroque gable flanked by
chimneys. The slightly smaller end bays are in similar style.
Otherwise, the intermediate bays have rectangular shop fronts
to ground floor, coupled round-headed windows to 1st floor,
and mullioned windows of 3 lights to 2nd floor and 4 lights to
3rd floor and attic. West side and rear similar but simpler.
INTERIOR: unaltered entrance hall to staircase, and central
atrium with round-headed arcades and glazed roof with central
dome.

Listing NGR: SJ8395598720

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Corn Exchange at Wikipedia
• Corn Exchange official website
• Wikidata Q3523085

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)