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Latitude: 53.4855 / 53°29'7"N
Longitude: -2.2349 / 2°14'5"W
OS Eastings: 384512
OS Northings: 398776
OS Grid: SJ845987
Mapcode National: GBR DLF.RK
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.MNZB
Plus Code: 9C5VFQP8+53
Entry Name: Smithfield Market Hall
Listing Date: 8 October 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1254687
English Heritage Legacy ID: 457765
ID on this website: 101254687
Location: Ancoats, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M4
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Ancoats and Clayton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester Cathedral
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Neoclassical architecture Market hall
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/12/2012
SJ8498
698-1/17/414
08/10/73
MANCHESTER
SWAN STREET
(South West side)
Nos.39, 43, 45
Smithfield Market Hall
GV
II
Former wholesale market hall. Dated 1857 on
frieze at front, and "altered 1867" on north side. Coursed
sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate and glass roof,
internal iron frame. Rectangular plan. Classical style. Single
storey 5-bay symmetrical facade to Swan Street, the centre and
ends breaking forwards slightly and the centre pedimented;
with moulded plinth, punch-dressed quoins, lettered frieze,
dentilled cornice and parapet with panels and upstands. The
centre has a round-headed archway with ornamental cast-iron
fanlight grill, rock-faced voussoirs and a bulls-head
keyblock, framed by a tetrastyle pilaster portico with
Corinthianesque capitals incorporating rams' heads, and a
mutuled pediment with acroterion; the outer bays have large
Venetian-form openings with round-headed archways which have
similar voussoirs and monogrammed keystones; and the frieze of
these three portions has inscriptions: "SMITHFIELD / MARKET
HALL" (in the pediment of the centre), and "ERECTED BY THE"
"CORPORATION OF THE CITY" "ANNO DOMINI 1857" from left to
right respectively. The intermediate bays have altered
shuttered openings under horizontal panels with grills pierced
by circular openings. The north side, 1:3:1 bays, has large
round-headed arches with imposts, and a metal and glass canopy
attached at impost level. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8451298776
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