Former Market Hall

The Former Market Hall, also known as Higher Campfield Market, is a market hall built in 1878 by the architects Mangnall and Littlewood. It features a square plan formed by cruciform intersecting naves with aisles in the angles, constructed from cast iron and wood, with a roof made of corrugated sheet and glass.

The facade is two-storey and symmetrical, with five bays. The central bay is wider, higher, and gabled. It is supported by cast-iron columns topped with crocket caps. Each bay is divided horizontally by a moulded cornice, with small matching pilasters below and large-paned glazing above. The central bay contains a tall segmental-arched doorway that rises into a glazed upper section. Above the eaves level, there is a latticed band, and the gable is filled with glazing in round-headed lights featuring slender shafts and margin panes. A bracketed cornice and a louvred gable-end of a ridge ventilator with a finial complete the design. The outer bays have hipped roofs with scallop fringes and ridge ventilators.

On the left return side facing Barton Street, there are three bays designed in a matching style. The right-hand end is linked by a glazed roof to the rear of Nos 322-330 Deansgate.

Inside, the hall features an arched roof made of cast iron and glass. The building forms a group with the Air and Space Museum, also known as the former Lower Campfield Market, located to the west, which was designed by the same architects in a very similar style. It is shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Higher Campfield Market.