Moss Side Peoples Centre

MANCHESTER

SJ89NW ST MARY'S STREET, Hulme 698-1/4/719 (West side) 23/04/81 Moss Side People's Centre

GV II

Former school incorporating teacher's house, now social centre. 1855-60. Brown brick in header bond (now mostly painted in various colours), fishscale slate roof. Irregular plan with hall range parallel to street, domestic wing at left end, 2 crosswings at the right-hand end, and various wings to the rear. Gothic style. The hall range has a chamfered 2-centred arched doorway and 2 tall gabled traceried windows, the wing to the right has a large 4-light traceried window and the outer wing attached to this has a 2-light window. A rear wing projecting to the right has a front aisle, and in the gable wall a 3-light window with intersecting tracery. The left return facade (the teacher's house) has two 8-light mullion-and-transom windows flanking a central 2-centred arched doorway with chamfered surround, above and to the right of this a battered chimney stack ending in a conical louvre, and at 1st floor mullioned windows of 2, 3 and 4 lights. Interior not inspected. Forms group with Church of St Mary UPPER MOSS LANE (q.v.), St Mary's Junior School and schoolyard railings CHICHESTER ROAD (q.v.), and St Mary's Rectory PARSONAGE STREET (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8343596062