Mosley Street

Manchester Metrolink construction on Mosley Street in 1991
The Portico Library, on the corner of Charlotte Street
The Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street

Mosley Street is a street in Manchester, England. It runs between its junction with Piccadilly and Market Street to St Peter's Square. Beyond St Peter's Square it becomes Lower Mosley Street. It is the location of several Grade II and Grade II* listed buildings.

Mosley Street Metrolink station was located near Piccadilly Gardens. In 2009, the tram lines were reconstructed, and buses used Mosley Street en route to Piccadilly Gardens until May 2011, when they were rerouted along Portland Street. The street is now exclusively used by Metrolink trams and no cars are permitted on the street. The tram stop closed on 17 May 2013.

History

The streets in the neighbourhood were laid in the 1780s and by the early 19th century Mosley Street was the centre of the fashionable residential part of town with institutions such as the Portico Library and the Royal Manchester Institution. The street was named after Nicholas Mosley who in 1596 bought the manor of Manchester for £3,500.[1] His father, Edward Mosley, already owned Hough End Hall, which was the manor house of Withington.[2][3] The Mosley family sold their manorial rights to Manchester City Council for £200,000 in 1846.[4][5] In the first quarter of the 19th century the street was home to Hugh Birley, Samuel Brooks and Nathan Mayer Rothschild.

The nature of the street changed after 1827, when a house on the corner of Market Street was converted into a hotel and rooms in its coach house on Back Mosley Street were used as a warehouse. Several more warehouses were built after 1830 and large houses occupied by the gentry were speculatively converted to warehouses.[6] The Congregational Chapel, in Cannon Street, was replaced by a chapel in Mosley Street and in 1848 the congregation moved again out of the centre of Manchester, to the chapel, in Cavendish Street, Chorlton on Medlock.

Listed buildings

East side
West side

See also

References

  1. Thomas Stuart Willan (1980). Elizabethan Manchester. Manchester University Press. p. 9.
  2. John J. Parkinson-Bailey (2000). Manchester: An Architectural History. Manchester University Press. p. 3.
  3. "Withington Area History". google.com/site/withingtonhistory.
  4. James Tait (1904). Mediæval Manchester and the Beginnings of Lancashire. Manchester University Press. p. 37.
  5. "THE MOSLEY FAMILY OF MANCHESTER". thornber.net.
  6. John J. Parkinson-Bailey (2000). Manchester: An Architectural History. Manchester University Press. p. 31.
  7. "Portico Library and Bank Public House", The National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 20 April 2012
  8. An oasis of calm in the heart of the city, The Portico Library, retrieved 1 May 2012
  9. "City Art Gallery", The National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 20 April 2012
  10. "14 & 16 Princess Street, includes 77 and 77A Mosley Street", The National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 20 April 2012
  11. "The Bradford and Bingley Building Society 10, Mosley Street", The National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 20 April 2012
  12. "12, Mosley Streetl", The National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 20 April 2012
  13. "Harvest House", The National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 20 April 2012
  14. "Colwyn Chambers", The National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 20 April 2012
  15. "Royal Bank of Scotland, 38 and 42 Mosley Street", The National Heritage List for England, English Heritage, retrieved 20 April 2012
Sources

Coordinates: 53°28′46″N 2°14′28″W / 53.47948°N 2.24112°W / 53.47948; -2.24112

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