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style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_Town_Hall_from_Lloyd_St.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Manchester_Town_Hall_from_Lloyd_St.jpg/250px-Manchester_Town_Hall_from_Lloyd_St.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Manchester_Town_Hall_from_Lloyd_St.jpg/375px-Manchester_Town_Hall_from_Lloyd_St.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Manchester_Town_Hall_from_Lloyd_St.jpg/500px-Manchester_Town_Hall_from_Lloyd_St.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1095" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="text-align: center"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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Greater Manchester" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Greater_Manchester_UK_location_map_2.svg/240px-Greater_Manchester_UK_location_map_2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Greater_Manchester_UK_location_map_2.svg/360px-Greater_Manchester_UK_location_map_2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Greater_Manchester_UK_location_map_2.svg/480px-Greater_Manchester_UK_location_map_2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="993" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:58.114%;left:61.759%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Manchester Town Hall"><img alt="Manchester Town Hall" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/7px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="7" height="7" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/11px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/14px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Shown in Greater Manchester</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ededed">General information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/City_and_town_halls" class="mw-redirect" title="City and town halls">Town hall</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Architectural style</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">Gothic Revival</a> / <a href="/wiki/High_Victorian_Gothic" title="High Victorian Gothic">High Victorian Gothic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Classification</th><td class="infobox-data category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><div style="border:4px solid #FFC0CB; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/Listed_building#England_and_Wales" title="Listed building">Listed Building</a> – Grade I</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">25 February 1952</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207469?section=official-list-entry">1207469</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Address</th><td class="infobox-data">Town Hall<br /><a href="/wiki/Albert_Square,_Manchester" title="Albert Square, Manchester">Albert Square</a><br /> Manchester<br /> M2 5DB</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Construction started</th><td class="infobox-data">1868</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Completed</th><td class="infobox-data">1877</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Inaugurated</th><td class="infobox-data">13 September 1877<sup id="cite_ref-History_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cost</th><td class="infobox-data">£775,000<sup id="cite_ref-ribacost_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ribacost-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – £1 million<sup id="cite_ref-heritage_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-heritage-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (£90,430,000 to 116,680,000 as of 2024<sup id="cite_ref-inflation-UK_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inflation-UK-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manchester_City_Council" title="Manchester City Council">Manchester City Council</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Height</th><td class="infobox-data">Clock tower – 280 feet (85 m)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ededed">Technical details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Floor count</th><td class="infobox-data">6</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ededed">Design and construction</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Architect(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Waterhouse" title="Alfred Waterhouse">Alfred Waterhouse</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Manchester Town Hall</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">Neo-gothic</a> <a href="/wiki/City_and_town_halls" class="mw-redirect" title="City and town halls">municipal building</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, England. It is the ceremonial headquarters of <a href="/wiki/Manchester_City_Council" title="Manchester City Council">Manchester City Council</a> and houses a number of local government departments. The building faces <a href="/wiki/Albert_Square,_Manchester" title="Albert Square, Manchester">Albert Square</a> to the north and <a href="/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Square,_Manchester" title="St Peter's Square, Manchester">St Peter's Square</a> to the south, with <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Cenotaph" title="Manchester Cenotaph">Manchester Cenotaph</a> facing its southern entrance. </p><p>Designed by architect <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Waterhouse" title="Alfred Waterhouse">Alfred Waterhouse</a>, the town hall was completed in 1877. The building contains offices and grand ceremonial rooms such as the Great Hall which is decorated with <a href="/wiki/Ford_Madox_Brown" title="Ford Madox Brown">Ford Madox Brown</a>'s imposing <i><a href="/wiki/The_Manchester_Murals" title="The Manchester Murals">Manchester Murals</a></i> illustrating the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Manchester" title="History of Manchester">history of the city</a>. The entrance and Sculpture Hall contain busts and statues of influential figures including <a href="/wiki/John_Dalton" title="John Dalton">Dalton</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule" title="James Prescott Joule">Joule</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Barbirolli" title="John Barbirolli">Barbirolli</a>. The exterior is dominated by the clock tower which rises to 280 feet (85 m) and houses Great Abel, the clock bell. </p><p>In 1938, a detached <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Town_Hall_Extension" title="Manchester Town Hall Extension">Town Hall Extension</a> was completed and is connected by two covered bridges over Lloyd Street. The town hall was designated as a Grade I <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a> on 25 February 1952. Both the building and the adjacent Albert Square have been closed since 2018 for refurbishment and are scheduled to be reopened in summer 2026.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Old_Town_Hall">Old Town Hall</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Old Town Hall"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_Old_Town_Hall.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Manchester_Old_Town_Hall.JPG/220px-Manchester_Old_Town_Hall.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Manchester_Old_Town_Hall.JPG/330px-Manchester_Old_Town_Hall.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Manchester_Old_Town_Hall.JPG/440px-Manchester_Old_Town_Hall.JPG 2x" data-file-width="669" data-file-height="426" /></a><figcaption>The original Manchester Town Hall</figcaption></figure> <p>Manchester's original civic administration was housed in the Police Office in <a href="/wiki/King_Street,_Manchester" title="King Street, Manchester">King Street</a>. It was replaced by the first Town Hall, to accommodate the growing local government and its civic assembly rooms. The Town Hall, also located in King Street at the corner of Cross Street, was designed by <a href="/wiki/Francis_Goodwin_(architect)" title="Francis Goodwin (architect)">Francis Goodwin</a> and constructed between 1822 and 1825, much of it by <a href="/wiki/David_Bellhouse" title="David Bellhouse">David Bellhouse</a>. The building was designed with a screen of <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic</a> columns across a recessed centre, in a classicising manner strongly influenced by <a href="/wiki/John_Soane" title="John Soane">John Soane</a>. The building was 134 feet (41 m) long and 76 feet (23 m) deep, the ground floor housed committee rooms and offices for the Chief Constable, Surveyor, Treasurer, other officers and clerks. The first floor held the Assembly Rooms. The building and land cost £39,587.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the size and wealth of the city grew, largely as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Textile_manufacture_during_the_Industrial_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution">textile industry</a>, its administration outstripped the existing facilities, and a new building was proposed. The King Street building was subsequently occupied by a lending library and then Lloyds Bank. The <a href="/wiki/Fa%C3%A7ade" title="Façade">façade</a> was removed to <a href="/wiki/Heaton_Park" title="Heaton Park">Heaton Park</a> in 1912, when a bank, <a href="/wiki/53_King_Street" title="53 King Street">53 King Street</a> was erected on the site.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_Town_Hall">New Town Hall</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: New Town Hall"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_Town_Hall_working_drawings.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Manchester_Town_Hall_working_drawings.jpg/190px-Manchester_Town_Hall_working_drawings.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Manchester_Town_Hall_working_drawings.jpg/285px-Manchester_Town_Hall_working_drawings.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Manchester_Town_Hall_working_drawings.jpg/380px-Manchester_Town_Hall_working_drawings.jpg 2x" data-file-width="530" data-file-height="728" /></a><figcaption>Detail of façades by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Waterhouse" title="Alfred Waterhouse">Alfred Waterhouse</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_Town_Hall_Cross_Section_Drawing.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Manchester_Town_Hall_Cross_Section_Drawing.jpg/220px-Manchester_Town_Hall_Cross_Section_Drawing.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Manchester_Town_Hall_Cross_Section_Drawing.jpg/330px-Manchester_Town_Hall_Cross_Section_Drawing.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Manchester_Town_Hall_Cross_Section_Drawing.jpg/440px-Manchester_Town_Hall_Cross_Section_Drawing.jpg 2x" data-file-width="530" data-file-height="381" /></a><figcaption>Cross section drawing by Waterhouse</figcaption></figure> <p>Planning for the new town hall began in 1863. Manchester Corporation demanded it be, 'equal if not superior, to any similar building in the country at any cost which may be reasonably required'.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The choice of location was influenced by a desire to provide a central, accessible, but relatively quiet site in a respectable district, close to Manchester's banks and municipal offices, next to a large open area, suitable for the display of a fine building.<sup id="cite_ref-Bowler_2000_175_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowler_2000_175-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After investigating suitable sites, including <a href="/wiki/Piccadilly_Gardens" title="Piccadilly Gardens">Piccadilly</a>, an oddly shaped plot facing <a href="/wiki/Albert_Square,_Manchester" title="Albert Square, Manchester">Albert Square</a> was chosen.<sup id="cite_ref-Hartwell71_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hartwell71-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Albert Square frontage measures 323 feet (98 m), Lloyd Street is 350 feet (107 m), Princess Street the longest at 383 feet (117 m) and Cooper Street measures 94 feet (29 m). On this tight site, the corporation built a grand hall, a suite of reception rooms, quarters for the lord mayor, offices and a council chamber.<sup id="cite_ref-History_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The second stage of a competition to design the town hall which attracted 137 entries was judged by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Leverton_Donaldson" title="Thomas Leverton Donaldson">Thomas Leverton Donaldson</a>, a classicist, and gothicist <a href="/wiki/George_Edmund_Street" title="George Edmund Street">George Edmund Street</a>. The eight finalists were Waterhouse, William Lee, Speakman & Charlesworth, <a href="/wiki/Cuthbert_Brodrick" title="Cuthbert Brodrick">Cuthbert Brodrick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Worthington_(architect)" title="Thomas Worthington (architect)">Thomas Worthington</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Oldrid_Scott" title="John Oldrid Scott">John Oldrid Scott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Wyatt" title="Thomas Henry Wyatt">Thomas Henry Wyatt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Salomons" title="Edward Salomons">Edward Salomons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In terms of design and aesthetics, Waterhouse's proposal was placed fourth behind those of Speakman & Charlesworth, Oldrid Scott and Worthington<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but his design was considered far superior in architectural quality, layout and use of light and he was appointed architect on 1 April 1868.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The foundation stone was laid on 26 October 1868 by the <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of Manchester">Mayor</a>, Robert Neill. Construction took nine years and used 14 million bricks.<sup id="cite_ref-Edensor_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edensor-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Estimates for the cost of construction vary from £775,000<sup id="cite_ref-ribacost_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ribacost-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to around £1 million,<sup id="cite_ref-heritage_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-heritage-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> translating to between £90,430,000 and £116,680,000 in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-inflation-UK_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inflation-UK-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria of the United Kingdom">Queen Victoria</a> refused to attend, Manchester Town Hall was opened on 13 September 1877 by the mayor, <a href="/wiki/Abel_Heywood" title="Abel Heywood">Abel Heywood</a>, who had championed the project.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Town_Hall_Extension">Town Hall Extension</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Town Hall Extension"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Town_Hall_Extension_Manchester.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Town_Hall_Extension_Manchester.jpg/220px-Town_Hall_Extension_Manchester.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Town_Hall_Extension_Manchester.jpg/330px-Town_Hall_Extension_Manchester.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Town_Hall_Extension_Manchester.jpg/440px-Town_Hall_Extension_Manchester.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Town_Hall_Extension" title="Manchester Town Hall Extension">Town Hall Extension</a> to the west of the Town Hall, designed by <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Harris" title="Vincent Harris">E. Vincent Harris</a> and completed in 1934</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Town_Hall_Extension" title="Manchester Town Hall Extension">Manchester Town Hall Extension</a></div> <p>In 1927, a competition to design the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Town_Hall_Extension" title="Manchester Town Hall Extension">Town Hall Extension</a> was won by <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Harris" title="Vincent Harris">Emanuel Vincent Harris</a>, the architect who also won a competition to design <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Central_Library" title="Manchester Central Library">the city's Central Library</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Work began on the extension in 1934 and was completed by 1938. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Herbert_Reilly" title="Charles Herbert Reilly">Charles Herbert Reilly</a>, a contemporary architecture critic, thought the extension was 'dull' and 'drab'<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Nikolaus_Pevsner" title="Nikolaus Pevsner">Nikolaus Pevsner</a> considered it was Harris's best work. It is linked to the town hall by glazed pedestrian bridges at first-floor level.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st-century_refurbishment">21st-century refurbishment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 21st-century refurbishment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By late 2014, the Town Hall was being described as "being in urgent need of essential repair" and modernisation.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2014 report, Manchester City Council highlighted the need to replace the building's heating and electrical systems, refurbish windows and high-level stonework and repair parts of the roofing. Over 500 timber windows will be restored as part of this renovation project.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The building temporarily closed to visitors in 2018 to undergo a £330 million renovation project.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The refurbishment has been both over-budget and late, with the building now scheduled to be re-opened in summer 2026.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Architecture">Architecture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Architecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_Town_Hall_late_19th_Century.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Manchester_Town_Hall_late_19th_Century.jpg/200px-Manchester_Town_Hall_late_19th_Century.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Manchester_Town_Hall_late_19th_Century.jpg/300px-Manchester_Town_Hall_late_19th_Century.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Manchester_Town_Hall_late_19th_Century.jpg/400px-Manchester_Town_Hall_late_19th_Century.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="313" /></a><figcaption>The town hall in the early 20th century, its stonework blackened by <a href="/wiki/Air_pollution" title="Air pollution">air pollution</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The rapid growth and accompanying pollution in Victorian cities caused great problems for architects including denial of light, overcrowding, awkward sites, noise, accessibility and visibility of buildings, and air pollution. Provision for "the sufficiency of window light supplied throughout the building" was addressed by the use of architectural devices: suspended first floor rooms, made possible by the use of iron-framed construction, <a href="/wiki/Skylight" title="Skylight">skylights</a>, extra windows and <a href="/wiki/Dormer" title="Dormer">dormers</a>, "borrowed lights" for interior spaces and glazed white bricks in conjunction with <a href="/wiki/Mosaic" title="Mosaic">mosaic</a> marble paving in areas where the light was "less strong".<sup id="cite_ref-Bowler_2000_175_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowler_2000_175-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Clear glass was used in important rooms, with light-coloured tints for coloured glazing, as "the sky of Manchester does not favour the employment of deeply stained glass."<sup id="cite_ref-Bowler_2000_180_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowler_2000_180-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The building exemplifies the Victorian <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">Gothic revival style of architecture</a>, using themes and elements from 13th-century <a href="/wiki/Early_English_Gothic" class="mw-redirect" title="Early English Gothic">Early English Gothic architecture</a>. Gothic features most prominent in the Manchester Town Hall are low <a href="/wiki/Rib_vault" title="Rib vault">rib vault</a> ceilings and tall arched windows. The choice of the Gothic was influenced by the wish for a spiritual acknowledgement of Manchester's late medieval heritage in the textile trade of the <a href="/wiki/Hanseatic_league" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanseatic league">Hanseatic league</a> and an affirmation of modernity in the fashionable neo-Gothic style favoured over the Neoclassical architecture of Liverpool.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite its medieval styling, the building was designed to support the practical technologies of the 19th century. It had <a href="/wiki/Gas_lighting" title="Gas lighting">gas lighting</a>, and a warm-air heating system, which provided fresh air drawn through ornamental stone air inlets below the windows and admitted behind the hot water pipes and 'coils' into the rooms. Warmed, fresh air was fed into the stairwells and through hollow shafts within the spiral staircases to ventilate the corridors.<sup id="cite_ref-Bowler_2000_175_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowler_2000_175-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pipes supplying gas for lighting were ingeniously concealed underneath the banister rails of the spiral staircases.<sup id="cite_ref-History_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Waterhouse designed the building structure to be fireproof, using a combination of concrete and wrought-iron beams.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Exterior">Exterior</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Exterior"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_Cenotaph_with_Town_Hall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Manchester_Cenotaph_with_Town_Hall.jpg/200px-Manchester_Cenotaph_with_Town_Hall.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Manchester_Cenotaph_with_Town_Hall.jpg/300px-Manchester_Cenotaph_with_Town_Hall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Manchester_Cenotaph_with_Town_Hall.jpg/400px-Manchester_Cenotaph_with_Town_Hall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>The east façade from <a href="/wiki/Mosley_Street" title="Mosley Street">Mosley Street</a> with <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Lutyens" title="Edwin Lutyens">Lutyen</a>'s relocated <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Cenotaph" title="Manchester Cenotaph">Cenotaph</a> in the foreground</figcaption></figure> <p>In mid-19th-century Manchester, many important <a href="/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian buildings</a> were blackened by <a href="/wiki/Atmospheric_pollution" class="mw-redirect" title="Atmospheric pollution">atmospheric pollution</a>. By the 1870s the local soft red <a href="/wiki/Collyhurst#Collyhurst_sandstone_and_quarry" title="Collyhurst">Collyhurst sandstone</a> was deemed to be unsuitable for public buildings, and tough <a href="/wiki/Pennines" title="Pennines">Pennine</a> <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstones</a> were preferred.<sup id="cite_ref-Bowler_2000_180_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowler_2000_180-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The architectural competition entries were judged in part on their suitability for the "climate of the district", and sample stone types were investigated.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Waterhouse believed it was a matter of great difficulty to find a stone "proof against the evil influences of the peculiar climate of Manchester" but decided that the <a href="/wiki/Bradford_Dale_(Yorkshire)" title="Bradford Dale (Yorkshire)">Bradford Dale</a>-quarried Spinkwell Stone and Bolton Woods Stone/Gaisby Rock/Elland Flags stone would resist "the deleterious influences of Manchester atmosphere".<sup id="cite_ref-Bowler_2000_175_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowler_2000_175-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The interior decoration was chosen with a view to providing permanent colour and cleanable surfaces. Public corridors were faced with <a href="/wiki/Terracotta" title="Terracotta">terracotta</a> rather than plaster, and extensive use was made of stone <a href="/wiki/Vault_(architecture)" title="Vault (architecture)">vaulted ceilings</a>, tiled <a href="/wiki/Dado_(architecture)" title="Dado (architecture)">dados</a> and washable mosaic floors.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Waterhouse's design used a Gothic style with limited carved decoration and a uniform colour, a departure from the high <a href="/wiki/Victorian_architecture" title="Victorian architecture">Victorian</a> heaviness and colour used in contemporary <a href="/wiki/John_Ruskin" title="John Ruskin">Ruskinian Gothic</a> buildings, and was criticised by some Manchester inhabitants for not being Gothic enough. The decision to spend large amounts of money on a building "when most of its architectural effect would be lost because ruined by soot and made nearly invisible by smoke" was criticised.<sup id="cite_ref-Bowler_2000_183_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowler_2000_183-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Waterhouse avoided using a <a href="/wiki/Polychrome" title="Polychrome">polychrome</a> scheme as seen in High Victorian Gothic buildings such as <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station" title="St Pancras railway station">St Pancras railway station</a> believing it to be impractical as Manchester's industrial atmosphere would quickly ruin the effect and decided a uniform stone exterior was the better solution.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Statues of notable figures in the city's history decorate its exterior, that of <a href="/wiki/Gnaeus_Julius_Agricola" title="Gnaeus Julius Agricola">Agricola</a>, founder of the Roman fort is over the main door and over its gable is a statue of <a href="/wiki/St_George" class="mw-redirect" title="St George">St George</a>. Statues of Thomas Grelley, first <a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_manor" title="Lord of the manor">lord of the manor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Chetham" title="Humphrey Chetham">Humphrey Chetham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_de_la_Warre" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas de la Warre">Thomas de la Warre</a> are among six at the corner of Albert Square and Princess Street.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Waterhouse's design proved successful and although its exterior was blackened by the late 1890s, the stonework was in a suitable condition to be cleaned and restored to its original appearance in the late 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Clock_tower">Clock tower</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Clock tower"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_Town_Hall_by_night_from_Renaissance_Hotel.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Manchester_Town_Hall_by_night_from_Renaissance_Hotel.JPG/220px-Manchester_Town_Hall_by_night_from_Renaissance_Hotel.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Manchester_Town_Hall_by_night_from_Renaissance_Hotel.JPG/330px-Manchester_Town_Hall_by_night_from_Renaissance_Hotel.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Manchester_Town_Hall_by_night_from_Renaissance_Hotel.JPG/440px-Manchester_Town_Hall_by_night_from_Renaissance_Hotel.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3595" data-file-height="2397" /></a><figcaption>View across the rooftops by night, from the north-west</figcaption></figure> <p>The 280 feet (85 m) tall bell tower, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester">19th tallest building</a> in Manchester as of February 2023, houses a <a href="/wiki/Carillon" title="Carillon">carillon</a> of 23 <a href="/wiki/Bell_(instrument)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bell (instrument)">bells</a>: 12 are hung for full circle <a href="/wiki/Change_ringing" title="Change ringing">change ringing</a> and were manufactured by <a href="/wiki/John_Taylor_Bellfounders" class="mw-redirect" title="John Taylor Bellfounders">John Taylor Bellfounders</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dove_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dove-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The clock bell, <i>Great Abel</i>, named after Abel Heywood, weighs 8 tons 2.5 cwt and four of 12 ringing bells are used for the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Quarters" title="Westminster Quarters">Westminster Clock Chime</a>. Its clock, made by Gillett and Bland (predecessor of <a href="/wiki/Gillett_%26_Johnston" title="Gillett & Johnston">Gillett and Johnston</a>), was originally wound using hydraulic power supplied by <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Hydraulic_Power" title="Manchester Hydraulic Power">Manchester Hydraulic Power</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The clock bell first rang on New Year's Day 1879, but cracked,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was replaced in 1882, and then recast with all the bells in 1937.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its clock face bears the inscription <i>Teach us to number our Days</i>, from <a href="/wiki/Psalm_90" title="Psalm 90">Psalm 90</a>:12. The clock bell is inscribed with the initials AH for Abel Heywood and the line <i>Ring out the false, ring in the true</i> from <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson,_1st_Baron_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson">Tennyson's</a> "<a href="/wiki/Ring_Out,_Wild_Bells" title="Ring Out, Wild Bells">Ring Out, Wild Bells</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2017, Change-Ringing is not currently permitted on the bells, due to the necessity of a restoration to the building.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interior">Interior</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Interior"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Waterhouse's plan for the town hall bridged the gap between office and ceremonial requirements and maximised space on its triangular site.<sup id="cite_ref-RIBA_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RIBA-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His design for a six-storey building filled the asymmetrical site.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Set around its perimeter is a <a href="/wiki/Cloister" title="Cloister">cloister</a> of corridors linking offices and everyday workings. Its grandiose, ceremonial features are centrally located. By the main entrance on Albert Square are two grand staircases leading to the landing outside its Great Hall. The stairs have low <a href="/wiki/Stair_riser" class="mw-redirect" title="Stair riser">risers</a> allowing access for women in Victorian <a href="/wiki/Victorian_fashion" title="Victorian fashion">dress</a>. The walls of the staircases have tall, arched windows admitting daylight.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Three <a href="/wiki/Stairway#Spiral_and_helical_stairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Stairway">spiral staircases</a> accessing the first floor from entrances on Princess Street, Lloyd Street and Cooper Street are constructed in English, Scottish and Irish <a href="/wiki/Granite" title="Granite">granite</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sculpture_Hall">Sculpture Hall</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Sculpture Hall"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The ground-floor Sculpture Hall contains statues and <a href="/wiki/Bust_(sculpture)" title="Bust (sculpture)">busts</a> of people who made significant contributions to Manchester, the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Corn_Law_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Corn Law League">Anti-Corn Law</a> campaigners, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Cobden" title="Richard Cobden">Richard Cobden</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Bright" title="John Bright">John Bright</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and scientists <a href="/wiki/John_Dalton" title="John Dalton">John Dalton</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Joule" class="mw-redirect" title="James Joule">James Joule</a> among many others.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The room measures 53 feet by 33 feet and has a groin vaulted ceiling, constructed out of Bath stone.<sup id="cite_ref-Website_History_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Website_History-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Sculpture Hall Café is now located here.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Great_Hall">Great Hall</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Great Hall"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/The_Manchester_Murals" title="The Manchester Murals">The Manchester Murals</a></div> <p>The landing has a glazed skylight on which the names of mayors, lord mayors and chairs of the council since Manchester received its Charter of Corporation in 1838 are inscribed on glass panes.<sup id="cite_ref-greathalldescription_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greathalldescription-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The landing has a <a href="/wiki/Mosaic" title="Mosaic">mosaic</a> floor with a pattern of bees and cotton flowers, both <a href="/wiki/Symbols_of_Manchester" title="Symbols of Manchester">symbols of Manchester</a>. Influential Victorian critic <a href="/wiki/John_Ruskin" title="John Ruskin">John Ruskin</a> described the Great Hall as "The most truly magnificent Gothic apartment in Europe."<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The rectangular hall measures 100 feet (30 m) by 50 feet (15 m). Natural light permeates from seven high windows on either side of the hall from the courtyards outside. It has a <a href="/wiki/Wagon_roof" class="mw-redirect" title="Wagon roof">wagon roof</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> its ceiling divided into panels bearing the arms of countries and towns with which Manchester traded at the zenith of its mercantile power. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Manchester_Murals" title="The Manchester Murals">The Manchester Murals</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ford_Madox_Brown" title="Ford Madox Brown">Ford Madox Brown</a>, a sequence of 12 paintings depicting the history of Manchester decorate its walls.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are not true <a href="/wiki/Fresco" title="Fresco">frescoes</a> but use the <a href="/wiki/Gambier_Parry_process" title="Gambier Parry process">Gambier Parry process</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Organ_(music)" title="Organ (music)">organ</a> installed by <a href="/wiki/Aristide_Cavaill%C3%A9-Coll" title="Aristide Cavaillé-Coll">Aristide Cavaillé-Coll</a> in 1877 stands 16 feet (5 m) tall and had more than 5,000 pipes, five manuals and 65 speaking stops. Cavaillé-Coll cleaned it and added the solo organ in 1893. In 1912, T.C. Lewis of <a href="/wiki/Brixton" title="Brixton">Brixton</a> rebuilt it and added the echo division. Jardine of Manchester's minor rebuild in 1970 added the mobile five-manual console.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_Town_Hall,_December_2016_(01).JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Entrance Vestibule"><img alt="Entrance Vestibule" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_December_2016_%2801%29.JPG/120px-Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_December_2016_%2801%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_December_2016_%2801%29.JPG/180px-Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_December_2016_%2801%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_December_2016_%2801%29.JPG/240px-Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_December_2016_%2801%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4896" data-file-height="3672" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Entrance Vestibule </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Dalton_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Statue of John Dalton in entrance vestibule, sculpted 1837 by Francis Leggatt Chantrey"><img alt="Statue of John Dalton in entrance vestibule, sculpted 1837 by Francis Leggatt Chantrey" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/John_Dalton_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg/79px-John_Dalton_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg" decoding="async" width="79" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/John_Dalton_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg/119px-John_Dalton_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/John_Dalton_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg/159px-John_Dalton_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1168" data-file-height="1760" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Statue of <a href="/wiki/John_Dalton" title="John Dalton">John Dalton</a> in entrance vestibule, sculpted 1837 by <a href="/wiki/Francis_Leggatt_Chantrey" title="Francis Leggatt Chantrey">Francis Leggatt Chantrey</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Joule_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Statue of James Prescott Joule in entrance vestibule, sculpted 1893 by Alfred Gilbert"><img alt="Statue of James Prescott Joule in entrance vestibule, sculpted 1893 by Alfred Gilbert" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/James_Joule_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg/79px-James_Joule_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg" decoding="async" width="79" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/James_Joule_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg/119px-James_Joule_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/James_Joule_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg/159px-James_Joule_statue_Manchester_City_Hall_20051020.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1168" data-file-height="1760" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Statue of <a href="/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule" title="James Prescott Joule">James Prescott Joule</a> in entrance vestibule, sculpted 1893 by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Gilbert" title="Alfred Gilbert">Alfred Gilbert</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_Town_Hall_cafe-32205794142.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Entrance Hall"><img alt="The Entrance Hall" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Manchester_Town_Hall_cafe-32205794142.jpg/120px-Manchester_Town_Hall_cafe-32205794142.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Manchester_Town_Hall_cafe-32205794142.jpg/180px-Manchester_Town_Hall_cafe-32205794142.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Manchester_Town_Hall_cafe-32205794142.jpg/240px-Manchester_Town_Hall_cafe-32205794142.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Entrance Hall</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_City_Hall_Staircase.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The principal staircase with a spiral staircase projecting into it"><img alt="The principal staircase with a spiral staircase projecting into it" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Manchester_City_Hall_Staircase.jpg/80px-Manchester_City_Hall_Staircase.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Manchester_City_Hall_Staircase.jpg/120px-Manchester_City_Hall_Staircase.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Manchester_City_Hall_Staircase.jpg/160px-Manchester_City_Hall_Staircase.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3455" data-file-height="5182" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The principal staircase with a spiral staircase projecting into it</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_City_Hall_Great_Hall_Foyer.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The landing outside the Great Hall"><img alt="The landing outside the Great Hall" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Manchester_City_Hall_Great_Hall_Foyer.jpg/80px-Manchester_City_Hall_Great_Hall_Foyer.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Manchester_City_Hall_Great_Hall_Foyer.jpg/120px-Manchester_City_Hall_Great_Hall_Foyer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Manchester_City_Hall_Great_Hall_Foyer.jpg/160px-Manchester_City_Hall_Great_Hall_Foyer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3454" data-file-height="5182" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The landing outside the Great Hall</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_Town_Hall,_Great_Hall.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Great Hall, its walls decorated with The Manchester Murals"><img alt="The Great Hall, its walls decorated with The Manchester Murals" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_Great_Hall.jpg/120px-Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_Great_Hall.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_Great_Hall.jpg/180px-Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_Great_Hall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_Great_Hall.jpg/240px-Manchester_Town_Hall%2C_Great_Hall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Great Hall, its walls decorated with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Manchester_Murals" title="The Manchester Murals">The Manchester Murals</a></i></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_City_Hall_Conference_Hall.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Conference Hall, originally the Council Chamber"><img alt="Conference Hall, originally the Council Chamber" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Manchester_City_Hall_Conference_Hall.jpg/120px-Manchester_City_Hall_Conference_Hall.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Manchester_City_Hall_Conference_Hall.jpg/180px-Manchester_City_Hall_Conference_Hall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Manchester_City_Hall_Conference_Hall.jpg/240px-Manchester_City_Hall_Conference_Hall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5182" data-file-height="3454" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Conference Hall, originally the Council Chamber</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_City_Hall_Banqueting_Room.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Banqueting Room"><img alt="Banqueting Room" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Manchester_City_Hall_Banqueting_Room.jpg/120px-Manchester_City_Hall_Banqueting_Room.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Manchester_City_Hall_Banqueting_Room.jpg/180px-Manchester_City_Hall_Banqueting_Room.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Manchester_City_Hall_Banqueting_Room.jpg/240px-Manchester_City_Hall_Banqueting_Room.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5182" data-file-height="3455" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Banqueting Room</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Manchester_City_Hall_Corridor.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Corridor"><img alt="Corridor" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Manchester_City_Hall_Corridor.jpg/80px-Manchester_City_Hall_Corridor.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Manchester_City_Hall_Corridor.jpg/120px-Manchester_City_Hall_Corridor.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Manchester_City_Hall_Corridor.jpg/160px-Manchester_City_Hall_Corridor.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3454" data-file-height="5182" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Corridor</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reception">Reception</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town hall is a Grade I <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> one of fifteen <a href="/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Greater_Manchester#Manchester" title="Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester">Grade I listed buildings in Manchester</a>; it is regarded as one of the finest interpretations of <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">Gothic revival architecture</a> in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>F. A. Bruton wrote that "The Town Hall ... is best viewed when the Square is empty and silent, as, for example, on Saturday afternoon or Sunday, and it is then that we may realise what a splendid "ruin" it will make, to excite the wonder of the South Sea Islander of the future".<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/James_Stevens_Curl" title="James Stevens Curl">James Stevens Curl</a> described it as "a High-Victorian Gothic secular masterpiece that combines eclectic elements to form a style that can only be Victorian".<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was voted Greater Manchester's favourite building by readers of the <i><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Evening_News" title="Manchester Evening News">Manchester Evening News</a></i> in 2012,<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the same year featured in a series of <a href="/wiki/Royal_Mail" title="Royal Mail">Royal Mail</a> stamps commemorating British landmarks.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_use">Current use</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Current use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Council meetings are no longer regularly held in the town hall, but in the Town Hall Extension.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hall now has a number of other uses. It is licensed for weddings and civil partnerships and is available to hire for conferences and other events.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tours of the clock tower are available through external tour companies at a cost.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the town hall bears some resemblance to the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a>, it has been used as a location for television and films. The original version of the political thriller <a href="/wiki/House_of_Cards_(British_TV_series)" title="House of Cards (British TV series)"><i>House of Cards</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (1990) and the 2003 BBC drama series <i><a href="/wiki/State_of_Play_(TV_serial)" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Play (TV serial)">State of Play</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both used the town hall to represent Westminster. The films <i><a href="/wiki/Ali_G_Indahouse" title="Ali G Indahouse">Ali G Indahouse</a></i> (2001), <i><a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2009_film)" title="Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)">Sherlock Holmes</a></i> (2008),<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Iron_Lady_(film)" title="The Iron Lady (film)">The Iron Lady</a></i> (2011),<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Victor_Frankenstein_(film)" title="Victor Frankenstein (film)">Victor Frankenstein</a></i> (2014), and <i><a href="/wiki/A_Very_English_Scandal_(TV_series)" title="A Very English Scandal (TV series)">A Very English Scandal</a></i> (2018) also all used the town hall as a stand-in for the interiors of the Palace of Westminster.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, a 24-hour police station reopened in the town hall, having been closed since 1937. Unlike the original, the new station does not include custody cells, but officers are able to conduct interviews there. <a href="/wiki/Chief_Superintendent" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Superintendent">Chief Superintendent</a> Nick Adderley described the location as "perfectly placed in the hub of the city" and suitable to "serve the needs of the public 24 hours a day".<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Overnight on 23 June and into 24 June 2016, the venue was used to announce the official result of the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">EU Referendum</a> by the chair of the <a href="/wiki/Electoral_Commission_(United_Kingdom)" title="Electoral Commission (United Kingdom)">Electoral Commission</a> acting as Chief Counting Officer (CSO) <a href="/wiki/Jenny_Watson_(civil_servant)" title="Jenny Watson (civil servant)">Jenny Watson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchester_Town_Hall&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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<li><a href="/wiki/Three60,_Manchester" title="Three60, Manchester">Three60</a> (154m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Tower,_Manchester" title="Elizabeth Tower, Manchester">Elizabeth Tower</a> (153m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deansgate_Square" title="Deansgate Square">Deansgate Square West Tower</a> (141m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viadux" title="Viadux">Viadux</a> (136m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deansgate_Square" title="Deansgate Square">Deansgate Square North Tower</a> (122m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/CIS_Tower" title="CIS Tower">CIS Tower</a> (118m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Affinity_Living_Circle_Square" title="Affinity Living Circle Square">Affinity Living Circle Square</a> (116m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxygen_Towers" title="Oxygen Towers">Oxygen Towers</a> (110m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angel_Gardens" title="Angel Gardens">Angel Gardens</a> (108m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_Tower,_Manchester" title="City Tower, Manchester">City Tower</a> (107m)</li> <li><a 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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Angel_Square,_front_facade.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Angel_Square%2C_front_facade.jpg/120px-Angel_Square%2C_front_facade.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Angel_Square%2C_front_facade.jpg/180px-Angel_Square%2C_front_facade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Angel_Square%2C_front_facade.jpg/240px-Angel_Square%2C_front_facade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2912" data-file-height="1941" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">High-rises (over 50 metres)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artisan_Heights" title="Artisan Heights">Artisan Heights</a> (95m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axis_Tower" class="mw-redirect" 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title="One Angel Square">One Angel Square</a> (72m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/3_St_Peter%27s_Square" class="mw-redirect" title="3 St Peter's Square">3 St Peter's Square</a> (72m)</li> <li><i>The Gate, Angel Meadow</i> (68m)</li> <li><i>The Light House</i> (67m)</li> <li><i>Victoria Residence</i> (67m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Principal_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="The Principal Manchester">The Principal Manchester</a> (66m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Mill" title="Victoria Mill">Victoria Mill</a> (65m)</li> <li><i>Albert Bridge House</i> (64m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/111_Piccadilly" title="111 Piccadilly">111 Piccadilly</a> (64m)</li> <li><i>Islington Wharf</i> (64m)</li> <li><i>The Slate Yard Flint Building</i> (64m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Properties" title="West Properties">Skyline Central</a> (63m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peninsula_Building" title="Peninsula Building">The Peninsula</a> (63m)</li> <li><i>Cambridge Street Block B</i> (63m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/No._1_Deansgate" title="No. 1 Deansgate">No. 1 Deansgate</a> (62m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owens_Park" title="Owens Park">Owens Park Tower</a> (61m)</li> <li><i>Brooklyn Hotel</i> (61m)</li> <li><i>One Castle Wharf</i> (61m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Business_School#Buildings" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester Business School">Manchester Business School Hotel</a> (60m)</li> <li><i>St James's Buildings</i> (60m)</li> <li><i>2 Leftbank Apartments</i> (60m)</li> <li><i>3 Leftbank Apartments</i> (60m)</li> <li><i>3 Piccadilly Place</i> (60m)</li> <li><i>Chancery Place</i> (60m)</li> <li><i>The Lume</i> (60m)</li> <li><i>Affinity Living Circle Square Tower 2</i> (60m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_St_Peter%27s_Square" title="One St Peter's Square">One St Peter's Square</a> (59m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two_St_Peter%27s_Square" title="Two St Peter's Square">Two St Peter's Square</a> (59m)</li> <li><i>Landmark, St. Peter's Square</i> (59m)</li> <li><i>2 Circle Square</i> (59m)</li> <li><i>Hotel and MSCP, Circle Square</i> (59m)</li> <li><i>Lowry House</i> (58m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_Police_Courts,_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="City Police Courts, Manchester">Minshull Street Courts</a> (57m)</li> <li><i>UNITE Tower</i> (57m)</li> <li><i>Cornbrook Works Tower 1</i> (57m)</li> <li><i>Ramada Renaissance Hotel</i> (56m)</li> <li><i>Parkway Gate Block 1</i> (56m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Exchange_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Exchange Theatre">Royal Exchange Theatre</a> (55m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1_New_York_Street" title="1 New York Street">1 New York Street</a> (55m)</li> <li><i>St James's House</i> (55m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_Chambers" title="Bank Chambers">Bank Chambers</a> (55m)</li> <li><i>Vita Circle Square Tower 1</i> (54m)</li> <li><i>Kampus Tower 1</i> (54m)</li> <li><i>Kampus Tower 2</i> (54m)</li> <li><i>Affinity Living Circle Square Tower 3</i> (54m)</li> <li><i>No. 1 Marsden Street</i> (53m)</li> <li><i>The Stile, Angel Meadow</i> (53m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Street,_Manchester" title="King Street, Manchester">82 King Street</a> (52m)</li> <li><i>Oxygen Tower 2</i> (52m)</li> <li><i>Vox Tower 1</i> (51m)</li> <li><i>Kampus Tower 3</i> (51m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Century_House" title="New Century House">New Century House</a> (50m)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hexagon_Tower" title="Hexagon Tower">Hexagon Tower</a> (50m)</li> <li><i>Parkway Gate Block 2</i> (50m)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Notable low-rises<br />(<a href="/wiki/Manchester_city_centre" title="Manchester city centre">city centre</a> or Grade II* listed)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1_The_Avenue" title="1 The Avenue">1 The Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Former_National_Westminster_Bank,_Spring_Gardens,_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Former National Westminster Bank, Spring Gardens, Manchester">1–3 York Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/25_St_Ann_Street" title="25 St Ann Street">25 St Ann Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/38_and_42_Mosley_Street" title="38 and 42 Mosley Street">38 and 42 Mosley Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/46%E2%80%9348_Brown_Street" title="46–48 Brown Street">46–48 Brown Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/50_Newton_Street" title="50 Newton Street">50 Newton Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/53_King_Street" title="53 King Street">53 King Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/84_Plymouth_Grove" title="84 Plymouth Grove">84 Plymouth Grove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100_King_Street" title="100 King Street">100 King Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afflecks" title="Afflecks">Afflecks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Turing_Building" title="Alan Turing Building">Alan Turing Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Hall,_Manchester" title="Albert Hall, Manchester">Albert Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancoats_Hospital" title="Ancoats Hospital">Ancoats Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arkwright_House,_Manchester" title="Arkwright House, Manchester">Arkwright House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Athenaeum" title="Manchester Athenaeum">Athenaeum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baguley_Hall" title="Baguley Hall">Baguley Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_Chambers" title="Bank Chambers">Bank Chambers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barlow_Hall" title="Barlow Hall">Barlow Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barton_Arcade" title="Barton Arcade">Barton Arcade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Central_Library" title="Manchester Central Library">Central Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chetham%27s_Library" title="Chetham's Library">Chetham's Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chips,_Manchester" title="Chips, Manchester">Chips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton_Hall" title="Clayton Hall">Clayton Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corn_Exchange,_Manchester" title="Corn Exchange, Manchester">Corn Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Court,_Manchester" title="County Court, Manchester">County Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daily_Express_Building,_Manchester" title="Daily Express Building, Manchester">Daily Express</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalton-Ellis_Hall" title="Dalton-Ellis Hall">Dalton-Ellis Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didsbury_Campus" title="Didsbury Campus">Didsbury Campus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Estate_Exchange" title="Estate Exchange">Estate Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Former_Bank_of_England,_Manchester" title="Former Bank of England, Manchester">Former Bank of England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Trade_Hall" title="Free Trade Hall">Free Trade Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gateway_House,_Manchester" title="Gateway House, Manchester">Gateway House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granada_Studios" title="Granada Studios">Old Granada Studios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Green_Building" title="The Green Building">The Green Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grove_House,_Manchester" title="Grove House, Manchester">Grove House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ha%C3%A7ienda" title="The Haçienda">The Haçienda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanover_Building" title="Hanover Building">Hanover Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heaton_Park" title="Heaton Park">Heaton Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holyoake_House" title="Holyoake House">Holyoake House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hough_End_Hall" title="Hough End Hall">Hough End Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hulme_Hall,_Manchester" title="Hulme Hall, Manchester">Hulme Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hulme_Hippodrome" title="Hulme Hippodrome">Hulme Hippodrome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Institute_of_Biotechnology" title="Manchester Institute of Biotechnology">Institute of Biotechnology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Rylands_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="John Rylands Library">John Rylands Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Manchester_Library" title="University of Manchester Library">John Rylands University Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kendals" title="Kendals">Kendals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Buildings" title="Lawrence Buildings">Lawrence Buildings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Law_Library" title="Manchester Law Library">Law Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_House,_Manchester" title="Lincoln House, Manchester">Lincoln House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Road_Fire_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Road Fire Station">London Road Fire Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Art_Gallery" title="Manchester Art Gallery">Manchester Art Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Museum" title="Manchester Museum">Manchester Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mechanics%27_Institute,_Manchester" title="Mechanics' Institute, Manchester">Mechanics' Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memorial_Hall,_Manchester" title="Memorial Hall, Manchester">Memorial Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midland_Hotel,_Manchester" title="Midland Hotel, Manchester">Midland Hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_Police_Courts,_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="City Police Courts, Manchester">Minshull Street Crown Courts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_and_Industry_Museum" title="Science and Industry Museum">Science and Industry Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Graphene_Institute" title="National Graphene Institute">National Graphene Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellen_Wilkinson_High_School" title="Ellen Wilkinson High School">Nicholls Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odeon_Cinema,_Manchester" title="Odeon Cinema, Manchester">Odeon Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Wellington_Inn" title="The Old Wellington Inn">Old Wellington Inn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_Piccadilly_Gardens" title="One Piccadilly Gardens">One Piccadilly Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pankhurst_Centre" title="Pankhurst Centre">Pankhurst Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_History_Museum" title="People's History Museum">People's History Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester_Police_Museum" title="Greater Manchester Police Museum">Police Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Portico_Library" title="The Portico Library">Portico Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Playhouse_Theatre,_Manchester" title="Playhouse Theatre, Manchester">Playhouse Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redfern_Building" title="Redfern Building">Redfern Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Reform_Club" title="Manchester Reform Club">Reform Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Hill,_Northenden" title="Rose Hill, Northenden">Rose Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Royal_Eye_Hospital" title="Manchester Royal Eye Hospital">Royal Eye Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rylands_Building" title="Rylands Building">Rylands Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sackville_Street_Building" title="Sackville Street Building">Sackville Street Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharston_Hall" title="Sharston Hall">Sharston Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ship_Canal_House" title="Ship Canal House">Ship Canal House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slade_Hall" title="Slade Hall">Slade Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smithfield_Market_Hall" title="Smithfield Market Hall">Smithfield Market Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Anselm_Hall" title="St Anselm Hall">St Anselm Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Mary%27s_Hospital,_Manchester" title="Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester">Saint Mary's Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Michael%27s,_Manchester" title="St Michael's, Manchester">St Michael's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HM_Prison_Manchester" title="HM Prison Manchester">Strangeways</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunlight_House" title="Sunlight House">Sunlight House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Manchester" title="Theatre Royal, Manchester">Theatre Royal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toast_Rack_(building)" title="Toast Rack (building)">Toast Rack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Towers_(Manchester)" title="The Towers (Manchester)">The Towers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Transport,_Greater_Manchester" title="Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester">Transport Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urbis" title="Urbis">Urbis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uttley_House" title="Uttley House">Uttley House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Baths" title="Victoria Baths">Victoria Baths</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitworth_Art_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitworth Art Gallery">Whitworth Art Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitworth_Building" title="Whitworth Building">Whitworth Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wythenshawe_Bus_Garage" title="Wythenshawe Bus Garage">Wythenshawe Bus Garage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wythenshawe_Hall" title="Wythenshawe Hall">Wythenshawe Hall</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_mills_in_Manchester" title="List of mills in Manchester">Mills</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manchester_cotton_warehouses" title="Manchester cotton warehouses">warehouses</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/107_Piccadilly" title="107 Piccadilly">107 Piccadilly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1830_warehouse,_Liverpool_Road_railway_station" title="1830 warehouse, Liverpool Road railway station">1830 warehouse, Liverpool Road railway station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albion_Mill,_Ancoats" title="Albion Mill, Ancoats">Albion Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asia_House,_Manchester" title="Asia House, Manchester">Asia House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beehive_Mill" title="Beehive Mill">Beehive Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgewater_House,_Manchester" title="Bridgewater House, Manchester">Bridgewater House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brownsfield_Mill" title="Brownsfield Mill">Brownsfield Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Mill,_Ancoats" title="Brunswick Mill, Ancoats">Brunswick Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canada_House,_Manchester" title="Canada House, Manchester">Canada House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chorlton_New_Mills" title="Chorlton New Mills">Chorlton New Mills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tootal,_Broadhurst_and_Lee_Building,_Manchester" title="Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building, Manchester">Churchgate House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dale_Street_Warehouse" title="Dale Street Warehouse">Dale Street Warehouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Havelock_Mills" title="Havelock Mills">Havelock Mills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/India_House,_Manchester" title="India House, Manchester">India House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson%27s_Warehouse" title="Jackson's Warehouse">Jackson's Warehouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancaster_House,_Manchester" title="Lancaster House, Manchester">Lancaster House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McConnel_%26_Kennedy_Mills" title="McConnel & Kennedy Mills">McConnel & Kennedy Mills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murrays%27_Mills" title="Murrays' Mills">Murrays' Mills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Mill,_Manchester" title="Old Mill, Manchester">Old Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piccadilly_Mill" title="Piccadilly Mill">Piccadilly Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Mill" title="Royal Mill">Royal Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shudehill_Mill" title="Shudehill Mill">Shudehill Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watts_Warehouse" title="Watts Warehouse">Watts Warehouse</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Religious<br />(Grade I or II* listed)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Muslim_Heritage_Centre" title="British Muslim Heritage Centre">British Muslim Heritage Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookfield_Unitarian_Church" title="Brookfield Unitarian Church">Brookfield Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castlefield_Congregational_Chapel" title="Castlefield Congregational Chapel">Castlefield Chapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Moss_Side,_Manchester" title="Christ Church, Moss Side, Manchester">Christ Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cross_Street_Chapel" title="Cross Street Chapel">Cross Street Chapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Name_of_Jesus,_Manchester" title="Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester">Holy Name of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Wood_Centre" title="Edgar Wood Centre">Edgar Wood Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorton_Monastery" title="Gorton Monastery">Gorton Monastery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Platt_Church" title="Holy Trinity Platt Church">Holy Trinity Platt Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Hidden_Gem" title="The Hidden Gem">The Hidden Gem</a> (Church of St Mary)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Jewish_Museum" title="Manchester Jewish Museum">Jewish Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Cathedral" title="Manchester Cathedral">Manchester Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Reform_Synagogue" title="Manchester Reform Synagogue">Manchester Reform Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Ann%27s_Church,_Manchester" title="St Ann's Church, Manchester">St Ann's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Chrysostom%27s_Church,_Victoria_Park" title="St Chrysostom's Church, Victoria Park">St Chrysostom's Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Cross,_Clayton" title="Church of St Cross, Clayton">Church of St Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_George,_Chester_Road,_Hulme" title="Church of St George, Chester Road, Hulme">St George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_James,_Didsbury" title="Church of St James, Didsbury">St James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_John_the_Evangelist,_Cheetham_Hill" title="Church of St John the Evangelist, Cheetham Hill">St John</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary,_Hulme" title="Church of St Mary, Hulme">St Mary</a> (Hulme)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Michael_and_All_Angels,_Northenden" title="Church of St Michael and All Angels, Northenden">Church of St Michael</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Nicholas,_Burnage" title="Church of St Nicholas, Burnage">St Nicholas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Peter,_Blackley" title="Church of St Peter, Blackley">St Peter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upper_Brook_Street_Chapel,_Manchester" title="Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester">Upper Brook Street Chapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Wilfrid,_Northenden" title="Church of St Wilfrid, Northenden">St Wilfrid</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Transportation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Airport" title="Manchester Airport">Manchester Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Airport_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester Airport railway station">Airport station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deansgate_railway_station" title="Deansgate railway station">Deansgate station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Piccadilly_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester Piccadilly railway station">Piccadilly station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Victoria_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester Victoria railway station">Victoria station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Oxford_Road_railway_station" title="Manchester Oxford Road railway station">Oxford Road station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Piccadilly_Gardens_bus_station" title="Manchester Piccadilly Gardens bus station">Piccadilly bus station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shudehill_Interchange" title="Shudehill Interchange">Shudehill Interchange</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Entertainment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/O2_Apollo_Manchester" title="O2 Apollo Manchester">O<sub>2</sub> Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Arndale" title="Manchester Arndale">Arndale Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgewater_Hall" title="Bridgewater Hall">Bridgewater Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castlefield_Bowl" title="Castlefield Bowl">Castlefield Bowl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Central_Convention_Complex" title="Manchester Central Convention Complex">Central</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Co-op_Live" title="Co-op Live">Co-op Live</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contact_Theatre" title="Contact Theatre">Contact Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornerhouse" title="Cornerhouse">Cornerhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Factory_(Manchester)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Factory (Manchester)">The Factory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Northern_Warehouse" title="Great Northern Warehouse">Great Northern Warehouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HOME_(Manchester)" title="HOME (Manchester)">HOME</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palace_Theatre,_Manchester" title="Palace Theatre, Manchester">Palace Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parrs_Wood" title="Parrs Wood">Parrs Wood Entertainment Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Opera_House" title="Manchester Opera House">Opera House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Printworks_(Manchester)" title="The Printworks (Manchester)">The Printworks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Arena" title="Manchester Arena">Manchester Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Academy" title="Manchester Academy">Manchester Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ritz_(Manchester)" title="The Ritz (Manchester)">O<sub>2</sub> Ritz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Exchange,_Manchester" title="Royal Exchange, Manchester">Royal Exchange Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O2_Victoria_Warehouse" class="mw-redirect" title="O2 Victoria Warehouse">Victoria Warehouse</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sports venues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Aquatics_Centre" title="Manchester Aquatics Centre">Aquatics Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belle_Vue_Stadium" title="Belle Vue Stadium">Belle Vue Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broadhurst_Park" title="Broadhurst Park">Broadhurst Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Cycling_Centre" title="National Cycling Centre">National Cycling Centre</a> (<a href="/wiki/National_Indoor_BMX_Arena" title="National Indoor BMX Arena">BMX Arena</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Velodrome" title="Manchester Velodrome">Velodrome</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Etihad_Campus" title="Etihad Campus">Etihad Campus</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Manchester_Stadium" title="City of Manchester Stadium">City of Manchester Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Academy_Stadium" title="Academy Stadium">Manchester City Academy Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Regional_Arena" title="Manchester Regional Arena">Manchester Regional Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Speedway_Stadium" title="National Speedway Stadium">National Speedway Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Squash_Centre" title="National Squash Centre">National Squash Centre</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Memorials and sculptures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Turing_Memorial" title="Alan Turing Memorial">Alan Turing Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Square,_Manchester#The_Albert_Memorial" title="Albert Square, Manchester">Albert Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B_of_the_Bang" title="B of the Bang">B of the Bang</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Glade_of_Light" title="The Glade of Light">The Glade of Light</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Cenotaph" title="Manchester Cenotaph">Cenotaph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rise_up,_Women_(Emmeline_Pankhurst_statue)" title="Rise up, Women (Emmeline Pankhurst statue)"><i>Rise up, Women</i> (Emmeline Pankhurst statue)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peacock_Mausoleum" title="Peacock Mausoleum">Peacock Mausoleum</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Victory_Over_Blindness" title="Victory Over Blindness">Victory Over Blindness</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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