Elevation to Portland Street Shewing the Hall of Memory for the New Art Gallery, Manchester, 1925

Summary

A view of a proposed design for a new art gallery on what had been the site of the Manchester Infirmary (demolished 1909). It shows from an angle an austere straight classical side of a building, interrupted by a round temple-like inner structure surrounded by rectangular-profile columns. The whole is elevated above street level and is inaccessible to the sketchily-drawn people which surround it, as the only door, to the right, has the appearance of a portcullis. To the left is a raised sculpture and a small tree. The new art gallery was not built, and the site eventually became Piccadilly bus station.