Description

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SJ89NE
698-1/5/744

MANCHESTER
Miles Platting
HULME HALL LANE (East side)
Entrance Lodge to main entrance of Philips Park Cemetery

20/06/88

GV
II

Lodge to cemetery. 1867, by Paull and Ayliffe. Coursed sandstone rubble, steeply-pitched slate roofs. Compact rectangular plan. Eclectic Gothic style. Two storeys and two irregular bays, the first being a square tower and the second gabled. The first has a segmental-pointed arched doorway at ground floor, a transomed lancet at first floor, a frieze with three quatrefoils, and a steep pyramidal roof with fishscale bands and apex finial; the second has a shallow mullion-and-transom bay window with hipped roof, and a cross-window immediately above. Attached to the left of the tower is a curved stair-turret with lancet window in the left side, and beyond that the gable of the return.

Listing NGR: SJ8677099231

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571896

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