The Exchange and Commercial Buildings Manchester

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