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The Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building (currently marketed as The Tootal Buildings) at No. 56
Oxford Street Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus. It is Europe's busiest shopping street, with around half a million daily visitors, and ...
, in
Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
, England, is a late Victorian warehouse and office block built in a neo-Baroque style for Tootal Broadhurst Lee, a firm of textile manufacturers.


History

It was designed by J. Gibbons Sankey and constructed between 1896 and 1898.''The Buildings of England: Lancashire- Manchester and the South East'', p. 321 It has been designated a Grade II* listed building.Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building 56 - Manchester - Greater Manchester - England , British Listed Buildings
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Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...
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'' describes the warehouse as "large, in red brick stripped with orange terracotta, but comparatively classical". It has a "massive central round-headed doorway with banded surround and cartouche dated 1896, set in (an) architrave of coupled banded columns and (a) broken pediment". The interior has been redesigned, but a First World War memorial by Henry Sellers has been retained, being "marble, with a niche from which the figure (has been) stolen". Behind it and not visible from Oxford Street is Lee House, the stub of what would have been the tallest building in Europe at 217 ft., a 17-storey warehouse of the same firm (planned 1928; part completed 1931). Both Churchgate House and Lee House are on the north bank of the Rochdale Canal; Great Bridgewater Street is immediately to the north of them.


Occupants

The building currently hosts the headquarters of the
Greater Manchester Combined Authority The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is a combined authority for Greater Manchester, England. It was established on 1 April 2011 and consists of 11 members; 10 indirectly elected members, each a directly elected councillor from one ...
including the office of the
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.


See also

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Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester There are 236 Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester, England. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural ...
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Listed buildings in Manchester-M1 Manchester is a city in Northwest England. The M postcode area, M1 postcode area of the city includes part of the city centre, in particular the Northern Quarter (Manchester), Northern Quarter, the area known as Chinatown, Manchester, Chinatown, ...
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Manchester cotton warehouses In the final half of the 19th century Manchester's reputation as a financial and commercial centre was boosted by the unprecedented number of warehouses erected in the city centre. In 1806 there were just over 1,000 but by 1815 this had almost dou ...


Notes


References

* Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew &
Pevsner, Nikolaus Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...
, ''The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Manchester and the South East'' (2004)
Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. , Yale Universi ...
* Hartwell, Clare, ''Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester'' (2002) Yale University Press
British Listed Buildings

Churchgate & Lee House Website


External links


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