FORMER BOYS PRISON BLOCK OF HMP MANCHESTER

FORMER BOYS PRISON BLOCK OF HMP MANCHESTER, SOUTHALL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254635
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER BOYS PRISON BLOCK OF HMP MANCHESTER
Statutory Address:: FORMER BOYS PRISON BLOCK OF HMP MANCHESTER, SOUTHALL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254635
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER BOYS PRISON BLOCK OF HMP MANCHESTER
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER BOYS PRISON BLOCK OF HMP MANCHESTER, SOUTHALL STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER BOYS PRISON BLOCK OF HMP MANCHESTER, SOUTHALL STREET

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:: SJ8384599668

Details

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

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

Legacy System number:: 457637
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.