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The Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building (subsequently Churchgate House) at No. 56 Oxford Street, in Manchester, England, is a late Victorian warehouse and office block built in an Edwardian Baroque style for a firm of textile manufacturers. It was designed by J. Gibbons Sankey and constructed between 1896 and 1898.〔''The Buildings of England: Lancashire- Manchester and the South East'', p. 321〕 It has been designated a Grade II * listed building.〔(Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building 56 - Manchester - Greater Manchester - England | British Listed Buildings )〕 Nikolaus Pevsner's ''The Buildings of England'' describes the warehouse as "large, in red brick stripped with orange terracotta, but comparatively classical".〔 It has a "massive central round-headed doorway with banded surround and cartouche dated 1896, set in (an) architrave of coupled banded columns and (a) broken pediment".〔 The interior has been redesigned, but a First World War memorial by Henry Sellers has been retained, being "marble, with a niche from which the figure (has been) stolen".〔''Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester'', p. 182〕 Behind it and not visible from the street is Lee House, the stub of what would have been the tallest building in Europe at 217 ft., a 17-storey warehouse of the same firm (planned 1928; part completed 1931).〔Sharp, Dennis, et al. (1969) ''Manchester''. London: Studio Vista; p. 33〕 Both Churchgate House and Lee House are on the north bank of the Rochdale Canal; Great Bridgewater Street is immediately to the north of them. ==See also== *Manchester cotton warehouses 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building, Manchester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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