Choir Schools Cathedral Yard Manchester

NEW BUILDINGS IN MANCHESTER - Continuing my journey through Manchester to view its recent buildings, I was brought up suddenly against the little white – at present white – choir school which those famous Manchester architects who practice under the name of Messrs Thomas Worthington and Sons, and whose work is as well known in Oxford and London as in their native city, are putting up in the Cathedral close, if one can give a name with so many and such different associations to the dismal churchyard which surrounds Manchester’s finest religious building. This little structure, with its square-headed mullioned windows all of one height, and its roof of old stones, has, needless to say, been made as low and unobtrusive as possible. Its plain walls, when as black as the Cathedral, and the long lines of its roof will fall quietly into place against the still longer lines of aisle and nave. If from Cathedral Street it shuts off part of the Cathedral it is the least interesting part. – Professor C H Reilly. [Manchester Guardian 12 December 1933 page 7]

Sculptor        Eric Gill - sculpture above door

Reference    Builder 1 July 1932 Page 33
Reference    Builder 17 March 1933 Page 479
Reference    Manchester City News 23 September 1933
Reference    Manchester Guardian 12 December 1933 page 9 - illustration
Reference    Manchester Guardian 12 December 1933 page 7 – Professor C H Reilly
Reference    Manchester Guardian 29 December 1933 page 11