Dispensary and Hospital for Sick Children Gartside Street Manchester

The foundation stone of a new general hospital and dispensary for sick children was laid at Manchester on Friday last. The building will cover a plot of ground of 530 square yards. The front will be executed in stock bricks, with stone dressings, mediaeval in character, and will consist of a central gable, with open porch, the tympanum containing a medallion of figures illustrative of the purpose of the building ; on each side a range of five arched windows will be surmounted by a frieze, with .an inscription in coloured tiles. A moulded stone cornice and high pitched roof will complete this elevation. Messrs Mills and Murgatroyd, of Manchester, are the architects, and Messrs Neill and Sons, the builders. [Building News 25 September 1868 page 659]

HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, MANCHESTER - The foundation-stone of a new dispensary for sick children in Gartslde-street, Deansgate, Manchester, has been laid. The building is intended, as an adjunct of the general hospital and dispensary for sick children which now occupies premises in Bridge-street. It is being erected by Messrs. R. Neill & Sons, from the designs and under the superintendence of Messrs. Mills & Murgatroyd, architects. It will cover a plot of ground of 530 square yards in area, with frontages to Gartside-street and Green’s-court. The building will contain, on the ground-floor, a waiting and reception room, 60 ft. by 32 ft., entered from Green’s-court in the rear, and capable of accommodating at one time about 350 persons. Adjoining this, and so arranged as to be in the line of route to the exit, which is in Gartside-street, are two surgeons’ consulting rooms, 27 ft. by 16 ft. and 17 ft. by 16 fc. respectively, followed by the dispensing-room. The building is to be warmed by open fireplaces. In order to give sufficient altitude to the front elevation, the ground-floor has been fixed at between 5 ft. and 6 ft. above the street level, and it is only in the Gartside-street front that the very simplest and plainest materials and design have been departed from. This front will be executed in stock bricks, with stone dressings, Medieval in character, and will consist of a central gable with open porch. On each side a range of five archated windows will be surmounted by a frieze, with an inscription in coloured tiles. A moulded stone cornice and high-pitched roof will complete this elevation. [Builder 26 September 1868 page 720]

Reference        Manchester Guardian 19 September 1868 page 5
Reference        Building News 25 September 1868 page 659
Reference        Builder 26 September 1868 page 720