Gatehouse Of Hmp Manchester

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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