Museum of Science and Industry, Air and Space Museum
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200807
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Museum of Science and Industry, Air and Space Museum
- Statutory Address:
- MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200807
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Museum of Science and Industry, Air and Space Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, LIVERPOOL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, LIVERPOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83270 97786
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8397NW, 698-1/30/217
LIVERPOOL ROAD
(North side),
Museum of Science and Industry, Air
and Space Museum
(Formerly Listed as: LIVERPOOL ROAD
(North side)
City Exhibition Hall)
17/05/74
GV
II
Formerly known as: Lower Campfield Market LIVERPOOL ROAD.
Market hall, now museum. 1876, by Mangnall and Littlewood.
Cast-iron and wood with slate and glass roofs. Large
rectangular plan in the form of a nave with north and south
aisles under parallel roofs, and north and south transepts to
the centre and both ends. Two storeys, 1:3:1:3:1 bays, the
centre and ends gabled, and the centre both wider and higher.
Cast-iron columns with crocket caps, each bay divided
horizontally by a moulded cornice, with small columns and
decorated cast-iron railings below this and large-paned
glazing above. The centre has a tall segmental-headed doorway
rising into the glazed upper portion, a latticed band above
eaves level, the gable filled with round-headed lights with
slender shafts and margin panes, a bracketed cornice and the
gable end of a continuous louvred ventilator, with a finial.
Each end bay has a segmental-arched open-work panel in the
centre, and an elliptical-arched iron bressummer to the gable,
with glazing like that of the centre. The intermediate bays
have oversailing eaves with scallop fringes, and continuous
ridge ventilators. Three-bay east and west ends in matching
style. Interior: cast-iron pillars with decorated caps
carrying latticed girders, slender elliptical-arched latticed
roof girders. Forms group with former Higher Campfield Market
Hall to east (q.v.), by same architects in very similar style.
Listing NGR: SJ8327097786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388280
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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