THE PORTICO LIBRARY AND THE BANK PUBLIC HOUSE
THE PORTICO LIBRARY AND THE BANK PUBLIC HOUSE, 57, MOSLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197930
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- THE PORTICO LIBRARY AND THE BANK PUBLIC HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- THE PORTICO LIBRARY AND THE BANK PUBLIC HOUSE, 57, MOSLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197930
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- THE PORTICO LIBRARY AND THE BANK PUBLIC HOUSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PORTICO LIBRARY AND THE BANK PUBLIC HOUSE, 57, MOSLEY STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE PORTICO LIBRARY AND THE BANK PUBLIC HOUSE, 57, MOSLEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84143 98139
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SW MOSLEY STREET
698-1/28/240 (East side)
25/02/52 No.57
The Portico Library and The Bank PH
(Formerly Listed as:
MOSLEY STREET
(East side)
No.57
Portico Library and Lloyds Bank)
GV II*
Subscription library, subsequently bank and library, now
public house and library. 1802-6, by Thomas Harrison of
Chester; altered. Sandstone ashlar (roof not visible).
Rectangular plan on corner site at junction with Charlotte
Street. Classical style. Two storeys with basement and attic,
presenting a slightly projected 3-bay pedimented loggia with 4
giant Ionic columns; with a plinth (steps between the
columns), 1st floor string-course carried round, moulded
architrave, plain frieze and dentilled cornice also carried
round; 2 doorways and 3 square 1st-floor windows under the
loggia. Inserted in the front wall is a VR post box.The
right-hand return wall to Charlotte Street has a doorway into
the side of the loggia, a square window above this and another
at 1st floor, then breaks forward as a 5-bay colonnade of
giant Ionic semi-columns, each bay containing a tall sashed
window at ground floor, with pediments and cornices in
alternate bays, a square window at 1st floor, and an attic
storey expressed as a pilastered parapet; and terminates with
one bay beyond. Interior: formerly galleried, with reading
room at ground floor level and library on gallery, but ceiling
inserted at gallery level c.1920 and ground floor remodelled
recently, leaving only the columns of the gallery exposed; 1st
floor not inspected, but reported to have saucer dome.
History: founded as social, literary and philosophic society,
the first honorary secretary being P.M.Roget (author of the
Thesaurus); until Public Libraries Act of 1856 was chief
circulating library in Manchester; mentioned by Thomas De
Quincey in his "Confessions of an Opium Eater".
Listing NGR: SJ8414398139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388329
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
De Quincey, T, Confessions of an Opium Eater
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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