IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Building on alternative designs for Manchester Town Hall from 1868.
Building writes:
….This week’s archive piece is the introduction to an extremely lengthy summary of the runners and riders in the competition to design the new Manchester Town Hall. ….this excerpt gives an impression of the exceptional quality of the submitted proposals. It was printed in 1868, six months before construction of the now grade I-listed building, which is being given a £325m makeover by Lendlease, started.
As the writer of the piece says, the ‘remarkable’ competition had attracted some of Britain’s best architectural talent:….On St. Valentine’s Day the drawings arrived, and we venture to say no enamoured swain or blushing maid received on that eventful morning a more valuable offering than did the worthy mayor of Manchester.’
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