The Faraday Building is a university building in central
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
. It is part of the campus of the former
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
The Faraday Building's architect was Harry Fairhurst, of the long-established Manchester firm of H.S. Fairhust & Son. It was constructed in 1967 by J. Gerrard & Sons.
The building housed, until mid-to-late 2007, part of the
University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
School of Chemistry. The School of Chemistry is now located mainly at the Chemistry Building on Brunswick Street, however a significant number of former Faraday-based academics researching biologically related chemistry are now based in the nearby
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre.
Appropriately, given its chemistry roots, the building houses a mural called ''The Alchemist's Elements'', by Hans Tisdall.
As part of the closure of the North Campus, the building was closed in 2015, and partially demolished in 2016.
Buildings at the University of Manchester
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