Whitworth Gallery

The Whitworth Gallery is an art gallery located in Manchester, built between 1895 and 1900 by architect J.W. Beaumont. The building is constructed of red brick with matching terracotta bands and dressings, topped with green slate roofs. It has a roughly rectangular plan featuring two towers and a large porch that projects at the front, along with short wings to the left and rear. The architectural style is free Jacobean.

The gallery stands two storeys above a basement and has a window arrangement of 1:1:9:1:2. The corners are accentuated by semi-octagonal pilasters that are finished as short Baroque turrets, complete with colonnades, a plinth, a first-floor sill-band, stylised corbel tables, a moulded cornice, and a parapet. The main range has a projected ground floor with a cornice and a balustraded parapet that extends over a large semi-circular porch. This porch features a screen of paired stone Ionic columns and a stone frieze, set on four semicircular steps. Round-headed windows are present on the curved wall of the porch, while small three-light windows are located on the straight sides of the projection. The first floor has cross-windows, except for the centre which features a slightly bowed six-light transomed window with a balustrade in the parapet, flanked by raised gold lettering that reads "WHITWORTH" and "GALLERIES".

The towers on either side of the main range have tiered canted oriel windows and low top stages adorned with corner pinnacles and pyramidal roofs. The left end bay and the two bays to the right include cross-windows on both floors, with the lower windows being larger and set in segmental-headed recesses. All windows are fitted with small-paned glazing. A small white lantern is positioned on the roof ridge, featuring pedimented faces.