Building Name
The Exchange and Commercial Buildings Manchester
Date
1806 - 1809
District/Town
Central, Manchester
County/Country
GMCA, England
Architect
Work
New Build
Manchester’s first exchange had been demolished in 1790. In 1805 Harrison was invited to produce a new scheme. Semi-circular plan as at Chester from Paris? Doric style but with attached columns and altered proportions to the architraves and frieze to produce a neo-classical building in Roman rather than Greek styl.
Enlarged by A.W Mills in 1847 8; demolished 1871-2
Reference E. Simpson, A Sketch of the History of the Manchester Royal Exchange, 1875
Reference J. G. C Parsons, The Centenary of the Manchester Royal Exchange, Manchester 1904