The Stopford Building is the second largest building at
The University of Manchester, after the
Sackville Street Building. It houses the
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH). It was built in 1969-72 (architects H. S. Fairhurst & Son). It is now linked on the east side to the Biotech Building of 1999. The cost of the building was £12.5 million and it was described as the largest and most up-to-date in Europe a few years after its completion. The medical school was then providing more doctors than any other British medical school, as well as dentists, graduate nurses, pharmacists, biochemists and psychiatric social workers.
[Yates, Tim (1975) ''The University of Manchezter''. Victoria University of Manchester; p. 22 ]
The new Medical School (1972) was given the name of the Stopford Building in memory of
Lord Stopford
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, a former Vice-Chancellor and notable anatomist. It has six lecture theatres. Also within the building is the Stopford Library (a branch of the
university library) which caters for the medical scientists and students. (The library was formerly known as the Medical Faculty Library and was an original feature of the building.)
The Stopford Building is located on
Oxford Road, Manchester, on the corner of Ackers Street immediately to the south of the
Church of the Holy Name and opposite to the
Manchester Academy
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which is next to the
University of Manchester Students' Union (UMSU).
References
Buildings at the University of Manchester
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