1. The Glories of Manchester Architecture, Sat 1 Oct 2022.
Meet: Outside the Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am.
Booking: !!SOLD OUT!!
Price: FREE (tip the guide if he or she deserves it!).
2. The Glories of Manchester Architecture, Sat 8 Oct 2022.
Overspill date
Meet: Outside the Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 2pm.
Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite.
Merchants’ palaces, Gothic towers, Baroque fantasies and Classical temples: Manchester city centre is lined with architectural splendour, from the soaring spires of Manchester Town Hall to the mathematical purity of the Friends’ Meeting House; from the exquisite Renaissance effects of the Athenaeum to the Art Deco embellishments of Sunlight House.
No wonder the Builder magazine once described Manchester as “a more interesting city to walk over than London. One can scarcely walk about Manchester without coming across frequent examples of the grand in architecture. There is nothing to equal it since the building of Venice.
On “The Glories of Manchester Architecture” we take you through the city’s streets looking at its most impressive buildings, era by era, style by style, architect by architect, showing off Manchester’s first designer buildings from the early 19th century right through the ages to today’s stunning skyscrapers.
