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Latitude: 53.263 / 53°15'46"N
Longitude: -2.1366 / 2°8'11"W
OS Eastings: 390987
OS Northings: 374007
OS Grid: SJ909740
Mapcode National: GBR FZJQ.70
Mapcode Global: WHBBP.47VV
Plus Code: 9C5V7V77+59
Entry Name: West Park Museum
Listing Date: 28 October 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1206947
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391089
Also known as: West Park Museum and Art Gallery
ID on this website: 101206947
Location: West Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, Cheshire, SK10
County: Cheshire East
Civil Parish: Macclesfield
Built-Up Area: Macclesfield
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: St Michael and All Angels, Macclesfield
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Museum
MACCLESFIELD
SJ97SW PRESTBURY ROAD
886-1/4/183 (North side)
West Park Museum
II
Museum. Built 1897-8. Brick with terracotta dressings and Welsh
slate roof. Single-storeyed, single-roomed structure, with
entrance in pedimented Dutch gabled end wall. Decorative
terracotta panels and frieze. Return walls divided into
shallow panels above plinth, otherwise blind. Cast-iron and
glass verandah runs the length of the building on the right
hand return facing the park. The museum is top-lit by
clerestorey in the roof. INTERIOR: the walls of the single
exhibition hall are enriched by a reconstruction of the frieze
from the Parthenon. The museum was built for the town and
endowed by Miss Marianne Brocklehurst, a local benefactor.
Listing NGR: SJ9098774007
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