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© Mr Peter Sargeant
IoE Number:
458616
Location:
G MEX, WINDMILL STREET (south west side)
MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr Peter Sargeant
Date Photographed:
12 May 2002
Date listed:
18 December 1963
Date of last amendment:
06 June 1994
Grade
II*
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MANCHESTER
SJ8397NE WINDMILL STREET
698-1/31/443 (South West side)
18/12/73 G-Mex
(Formerly Listed as:
WINDMILL STREET
(South West side)
Former Central Station)
GV II*
Railway station, now exhibition hall and car park. 1876-9, by
Sir John Fowler, for Midland Railway Company; altered. Iron
and glass on brick undercroft, with brick side walls.
Rectangular plan. Single segmental-vaulted vessel of 15 bays
with 210-foot span, built on extensive undercrofts; pilastered
2-storey south side with 3 windows on each floor of each bay,
those at ground floor round-headed and those above
square-headed; segmental arched roof with ridged bands of
glazing. C20 glazed canopy to entrance at north end. Vaulted
undercroft with intersecting tunnel vaults. Intended entrance
block at north end never built.