G Mex, Manchester
Description: G Mex
Grade: II*
Date Listed: 18 December 1963
English Heritage Building ID: 458616
OS Grid Reference: SJ8373797786
OS Grid Coordinates: 383737, 397786
Latitude/Longitude: 53.4766, -2.2465
Location: Windmill Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester M2 3GX
Locality: Manchester
Local Authority:
County: Greater Manchester
Country: England
Postcode: M2 3GX
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Listing Text
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.
Listing NGR: SJ8373797786
Source: English Heritage
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