ART GALLERY AND LIBRARY

ART GALLERY AND LIBRARY, MOSS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163708
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: ART GALLERY AND LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: ART GALLERY AND LIBRARY, MOSS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163708
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: ART GALLERY AND LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: ART GALLERY AND LIBRARY, MOSS STREET

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

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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:: ART GALLERY AND LIBRARY, MOSS STREET

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

District:: Bury (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 80316 10614

Details

SD 8010 NW MOSS STREET 1/55 Art Gallery and Library - - II

1899-1901, by Woodhouse and Willoughby of Manchester. On corner with Moss Street. Free classical style. Ashlar, to main fronts. Mostly 2 storeys, with basement behind plain coped parapet. Order of unfluted Ionic columns on ground floor, with entablature broken forward over each column. On symmetrical Silver Street front there are no columns to re-entrant corners, and on first floor the columns of a second (modified unfluted Doric) order are limited to pairs framing the mid part of each advanced end section; above these again is a third order framing pedimented sedicules, providing gable terminations to pitched roofs. Triple-arch entrance is surmounted by cartouche flanked by standing female figures and balustrading. 3 large windows to each bay of advanced sections on ground floor; no windows on 1st floor, but bas- relief frieze of crowded figures. Moss Street front is broadly similar, but with only one 3-tier order, the lowest tier of which forms a 3-bay portico, providing entry to the Art Gallery and Museum. Balustrading over first storey entablature between sedicules on both fronts. Built as condition of gift of Wrigley Collection of paintings.

Listing NGR: SD8031610614

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Legacy System number:: 210706
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.