At the centre of Waterhouse's design, 162 hand-painted and gilded panels make up the ceiling of the main hall The hand-painted illustrations depict plants of vital economic, medicinal and ...

Waterhouse chose to incorporate living and extinct animals into the architectural details of the building, with extinct species in the east wing and living ones in the west. The building is dominated ...

The hall was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, one of Britain's best-known architects, who also designed Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History Museum in London. Today, the hall is used for our ...

Manchester's impressive gothic town hall and political home, on Albert Square, was designed by architect Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1877. The building's Great Hall features murals by pre ...