Cobden House Chambers
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Cobden House Chambers
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 15 Jun 2017
This former town house on the corner of Quay Street and Byrom Street is Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1247447 It was the residence of the politician and refromer Richard Cobden. The house was purchased in 1851 with money from a legacy left by John Owens. Owens intended the legacy to fund the establishment of a college for the education of males on non-sectarian lines. The college was set-up in Cobden House and called Owens College. The college left Cobden House in 1873 to move to a new home on Oxford Road where it became the Victoria University and eventually the University of Manchester. It was converted into Manchester County Court and opened as a court house in 1878. It continued as that until 1990. http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour1/cobden.html It has since been refurbished and is now barrister's chambers http://www.cobden.co.uk/ The Byrom Street side has a blue plaque Image to the memory of Sir Edward Frankland and Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe.
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Image Location
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53.478459
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