84-86 King Street, Manchester
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84-86 King Street, Manchester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 16 May 2012
A noble facade by Manchester's most distinguished Classical architect of the time, Richard Lane. Built in 1841-42, the elegant ground-floor arcade sympathetically rebuilt by Charles Heathcote in 1904. Lane's inspiration for his decoration was the Choragic Monument of Thrasyllus which stood on the Acropolis (Image]). He might have seen the illustration in James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens. Grade II listed. Built for the Manchester & Salford Savings Bank, now occupied by a French restaurant, Le Relais de Venise L'Entrecote, and Allied Irish Banks in the offices above.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.480724
Longitude
-2.243465