Onward Buildings

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE DEANSGATE 698-1/27/108 (East side) Nos.205 TO 209 (Odd) Onward Buildings

GV II

Band of Hope building, now shop and offices. 1903-5, by Charles Heathcote. Red brick with dressings of yellow terracotta, slate roof. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street, with rounded corners. Free Baroque style. A 4-storey 5-window facade, symmetrical, with banded ground and 3rd floors, prominent bracketed cornice, hipped roof with banded chimneys to the front and sides. The ground floor has a central round-headed entrance arch with cavetto surround and keystone enriched with foliation, mask, and raised lettering "BAND OF HOPE", a curved balcony over the arch with wrought-iron railings, and a wide segmental-headed window each side; the 1st floor and 2nd floors have cross-windows, those at 1st floor taller and with eared architraves and triple keystones, and those at 2nd floor with shouldered architraves and single keystones; the 3rd floor has keyed oculi; and above the cornice is a flat-roofed dormer between the chimneys. The corners are chamfered at ground floor and curved above, with similar windows at 1st and 2nd floors only and applied lettering "ONWARD BUILDINGS" between these windows. Returned sides similar but simpler. Interior reported to have meeting hall with plaques or tiles of Lancashire Temperance Societies. History: built for federation of Temperance Societies.

Listing NGR: SJ8356898021