A chaos of architecture
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A chaos of architecture
Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 25 May 2022
We are standing in Essex Street, looking across into Chancery Lane. On our immediate left is the terracotta brick of the erstwhile Prudential Assurance building by Alfred Waterhouse in 1888. Opposite it is olde Bank of England building of 1845-6, by C.R.Cockerel in sandstone ashlar. On the left in Chancery Lane is the elaborate baroque of the former Lloyd's bank, dating from 1913. On the right is the post-brutalist modernism of Pall Mall Court dating from 1969. In the distance is the Mock Tudor of the Union Building, from 1889, designed by architects Butler & Ellis. In one of its units the members of Manchester band The Smiths used to rehearse. It was built for the Union Assurance Society Limited, of Royal Exchange in London as the Manchester branch office. See https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1219164 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1291596 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1291610 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246934 respectively. Oddly the Union Assurance Building in chapel walks is not a listed building. See https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/index.php/partnerships/barker-and-ellis for details of the architects.
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