Former Boys Prison Block Of Hmp Manchester is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Former prison block.

Former Boys Prison Block Of Hmp Manchester

WRENN ID
brooding-courtyard-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1974
Type
Former prison block
Source
Historic England listing

Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 December 2016.

SJ8399 698-1/14/575 03/10/74

MANCHESTER SOUTHALL STREET, Cheetham (North side)

Former Boys' Prison Block of HMP Manchester

(Formerly listed as: Boys' Prison Block of Strangeways Gaol)

II

GV

Formerly women's prison. 1866-68, by Alfred Waterhouse. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Cruciform plan with wings radiating from an octagonal concourse. The concourse has a clerestory with a 3-light stone mullioned window in each side, a corbel table to the eaves, a tourelle at each corner, and a pointed roof. The 4-storeyed wings have ranges of cell windows with stone sills and cambered stone heads.

Listing NGR: SJ 83845 99668

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