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MASONIC HALL

MASONIC HALL, 32, 34 AND 36, MANNINGHAM LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390550
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: MASONIC HALL
Statutory Address:: MASONIC HALL, 32, 34 AND 36, MANNINGHAM LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390550
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: MASONIC HALL
Statutory Address 1:: MASONIC HALL, 32, 34 AND 36, MANNINGHAM LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MASONIC HALL, 32, 34 AND 36, MANNINGHAM LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 16051 33712

Details

1/0/10131 05-AUG-03

MANNINGHAM LANE (Northeast side) 32, 34 AND 36 Masonic Hall

II

Also Known As: Connaught Rooms, MANNINGHAM LANE Masonic Hall, with shops and offices. Designed by Ross & Briggs of Bradford. Built 1926-28 for the Bradford Masonic Association. Steel-framed with flat roofs. Ashlar facade with coursed stone side fronts and tiled internal courtyards. Classical Revival style. Metal framed Crittal windows with margin lights. 4 storey, 8 windows . Main, south-western facade has central recessed doorway within slightly projecting pedimented porch. Rusticated surround has columns 'in antis' with modern canopy and inner steps leading to glazed double doors. Either side single shops each with an original metal framed shop window and recessed central doorway, flanked by rusticated ashlar piers. The shop to the right [No. 32] also has similar side shop windows to Trafalgar Street. Above giant order spans two upper floors, with outer Doric pilasters and inner Ionic half-columns flanking the two centre bays. First floor windows have moulded surrounds and pediments, second floor windows have moulded surrounds. Giant order supports moulded entablature with deeply bracketed frieze with small casement windows between the brackets. 3 similar windows to right return on Trafalgar Street. South-eastern facade to Trafalgar Street has well preserved though very irregular fenestration. INTERIOR. Main entrance hall has marble doorcases, marble lined walls with pilasters and coffered ceilings. Marble memorial tablet records laying of foundation stone by Viscount Lascelles on 2nd November 1926. Original staircase with stained glass windows. Original lift with timber panelled interior. Dining room has plaster panelled walls with pilasters and coffered ceiling with stained glass central roof panel. Small dining room has similar decoration with wooden doorcases and dado rail. The York Temple has wooden panelling with plaster panelling above. Chequered floor and original Masonic fittings. Larger 2 storey Lancaster Temple or Banqueting Hall has wooden panelling with plaster panelling above and coffered plaster ceiling. This room has balconies around three sides and a music gallery over the entrance, all with iron railings, supported on scroll brackets. This building was built at a cost of £61,000. SE1605233712

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 490477
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.