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Description: | "The Reform Club, at the top of King-street, is a...structure of Gothic character, with an admixture of Italian details; the architects being Messrs. Edward Salomons & J. P. Jones, of Manchester and London. The principal front is of ashlar-work, with columns in polished red and grey granite. Each angle of the building is corbelled out so as to form a projecting oriel, which adds materially to the general effect. The hall and anti-hall are groined, the walls are decorated with terra-cotta, and relieved with marble columns, and the staircases are of oak, with carved balusters, inlaid with various kinds of wood. The dining-room, which canopies the greater portion of the first floor, is a well-proportioned apartment, 80 feet long and 32 feet in width, with a panelled oak and pitch-pine ceiling and doors and dado of carved oak. The club was opened on the 19th October, 1871."
Text by James Croston from his book 'Manchester As It Is'. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | J. E. Cornish | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Brothers, Alfred | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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