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Latitude: 53.4787 / 53°28'43"N
Longitude: -2.249 / 2°14'56"W
OS Eastings: 383568
OS Northings: 398021
OS Grid: SJ835980
Mapcode National: GBR DHH.PZ
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.FT8K
Plus Code: 9C5VFQH2+F9
Entry Name: Onward Buildings
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1210092
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388092
ID on this website: 101210092
Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester, M3
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: City Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester St Ann
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
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MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE DEANSGATE
698-1/27/108 (East side)
Nos.205 TO 209 (Odd)
Onward Buildings
GV II
Band of Hope building, now shop and offices. 1903-5, by
Charles Heathcote. Red brick with dressings of yellow
terracotta, slate roof. Rectangular plan at right-angles to
street, with rounded corners. Free Baroque style. A 4-storey
5-window facade, symmetrical, with banded ground and 3rd
floors, prominent bracketed cornice, hipped roof with banded
chimneys to the front and sides. The ground floor has a
central round-headed entrance arch with cavetto surround and
keystone enriched with foliation, mask, and raised lettering
"BAND OF HOPE", a curved balcony over the arch with
wrought-iron railings, and a wide segmental-headed window each
side; the 1st floor and 2nd floors have cross-windows, those
at 1st floor taller and with eared architraves and triple
keystones, and those at 2nd floor with shouldered architraves
and single keystones; the 3rd floor has keyed oculi; and above
the cornice is a flat-roofed dormer between the chimneys. The
corners are chamfered at ground floor and curved above, with
similar windows at 1st and 2nd floors only and applied
lettering "ONWARD BUILDINGS" between these windows. Returned
sides similar but simpler. Interior reported to have meeting
hall with plaques or tiles of Lancashire Temperance Societies.
History: built for federation of Temperance Societies.
Listing NGR: SJ8356898021
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