Barton Arcade Manchester
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setchfield / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
CB5071File size:
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3744 x 5616 px | 31.7 x 47.5 cm | 12.5 x 18.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
30 July 2010Location:
Deansgate Manchester England UKMore information:
Barton Arcade, Deansgate, Manchester, is a small Victorian shopping arcade between Deansgate and St Ann's Square. The arcade was listed as a Grade II listed building on the 25 January 1972. The listing extends to the "block of shops (Barton's Building) and offices enclosing the arcades." The whole was constructed by Corbett, Raby and Sawyer in 1871. Hartwell describes the Barton's Building facade as "utterly ignorant.. the ground floor pilasters must be seen to be believed." The arcade, however, is "a gorgeous glass and iron shopping arcade with glass domes..., the best example of this type of cast-iron and glass arcade anywhere in the country." The entrance to the arcade on St. Ann Square incorporates a large, cast iron and glass wall. The two entrances on Deansgate are hidden behind the Barton Building. The building is of "four storeys (with an) attic, a long nine-bay facade to Deansgate, divided in half horizontally by a balustraded balcony." The whole structure is composed of cast iron and glass, with the iron from the Macfarlane Saracen Glass Factory in Glasgow. The building was one of the first to be built on the newly-widened Deansgate road. The arcade was restored in the 1980s. The original shop fronts, as well as the original decorative floor, no longer exist.[