St Marys Hospital

MANCHESTER

SJ89NW OXFORD ROAD, Chorlton-On-Medlock 698-1/4/613 (East side) St Mary's Hospital

GV II

Hospital. 1909, by John Ely. Red brick with matching terracotta dressings, slate roofs. Extended E-plan formed by main range parallel to street with 3 slightly-radiating ward blocks to the rear. Diluted Edwardian Baroque style. Three storeys with basement and attics, 7 bays (3:2:3:3:3:2:2 windows at 1st floor), symmetrical, the centre bay wider, those flanking it breaking forwards slightly and gabled, and the end bays canted; with a 1st-floor band, modillioned cornice and balustraded parapet. The centre has steps up to a wide central entrance with an architrave of coupled fluted Tuscan columns on pedestals with triglyph frieze and broken segmental pediment, and a round-headed doorway with raised run-out voussoirs and keystone, and coupled windows in a pedimented architrave above this. The gabled bays have 4-light windows at 2nd floor, segmental pediments over the cornice, and attic gables with 2-light windows and apex finials. The canted end bays have octagonal turrets with domed lead roofs. All the windows have keystones, those at 1st floor have shouldered architraves and cornices, and those at 2nd floor are paired and have similar architraves; those at 1st and 2nd floor are sashed with glazing bars but those at ground floor have altered glazing. Returned ends and rear wings in similar style. Interior not inspected. Forms group with Royal Infirmary to north.

Listing NGR: SJ8499595902