Waterhouse worked extensively on civic and educational buildings in Manchester and London. For the Natural History Museum, Waterhouse combined Gothic Revival and twelfth-century Romanesque ...

A long-lost set of original designs for Manchester Town Hall have been uncovered - in the very last room archivists looked in. The drawings by architect Alfred Waterhouse date back to the mid-19th ...

It connected with the Beyer Building which housed geology and zoology and botany, and, like the other college buildings, it was designed by Alfred Waterhouse. Thomas Henry Huxley had advised on the ...

Seven lost Manchester buildings we wish had been treasured, ... Designed in the Venetian Gothic style by Alfred Waterhouse, who entered his design for the building in a competition in 1858, ...

The gothic building now named for John Owens was the first on this site. Like all the buildings, it was designed by the Manchester architect Alfred Waterhouse, who in 1868 had won the competition to ...

Part of an extraordinary complex of conjoined, landmark civic buildings that includes Alfred Waterhouse’s exuberant neo-gothic 1877 Town Hall next door, the grade II*-listed library lies at the civic ...

The Town Hall took nine years to complete and the quality of the building is due both to Waterhouse’s brilliance and Manchester’s determination to have (and pay for) the best. The cost of the building ...

Housed in a magnificent terracotta Grade-II listed building, Kimpton Clocktower hotel dates back to 1890, when it first opened as The Refuge Assurance Company.

The chapels are of national significance, being the first public works of eminent Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse, whose celebrated works include Manchester Town Hall, London’s Natural ...