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Chorlton-on-Medlock is an
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area of
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, England.
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in
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, Chorlton-on-Medlock is bordered to the north by the
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, which runs immediately south of
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. Its other borders roughly correspond to Stockport Road, Hathersage Road, Moss Lane East and Boundary Lane. Neighbouring districts are
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to the west,
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to the east and Victoria Park,
Rusholme Rusholme () is an area of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England, two miles south of the Manchester city centre, city centre. The population of the ward at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 13,643. Rusholme is bounded by Chorl ...
and
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to the south. A large portion of the district along Oxford Road is occupied by the campuses of the
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,
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, and the
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. To the south of the university's Oxford Road campus a considerable area is occupied by a group of contiguous hospitals including
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, to the west of which is Whitworth Park.


History

In
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times, the district was known as Chorlton Row and was a
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of the ancient parish of
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in the
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hundred of Lancashire. Towards the end of the 18th century, it developed as a residential suburb of Manchester and in the extreme north of the township a number of
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s were established. In 1820 the parish church of All Saints was built. Development began in 1793–94 and most of the important streets were given impressive names, Oxford Street, Cambridge Street and Grosvenor Street. Over the following 30 years residential development spread southwards as far as Tuer Street: and by the mid-1840s to High Street. Few dwellings of that period remain today apart from Waterloo Place, 323, 325, 327 & 333 Oxford Road, and Grove House (316–324). On the creation of the
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of Manchester in 1838 the township was absorbed into the borough. At this time the southern area was still partly rural with some larger dwellings of wealthy people (e.g., John Owens in Nelson Street). After the Poor Law Reform of 1834 the district became part of the Chorlton
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and the offices of the Board of Guardians were built in Cavendish Street (these are now the Ormond Building of the Metropolitan University). The arrival of Owens College in 1873 was the beginning of a different kind of development leading to the academic campus of today. In 1866 Chorlton upon Medlock became a separate
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, on 26 March 1896 the parish was abolished to form South Manchester. In 1891 the parish had a population of 59,620. Though most of the township was originally middle class in character by the early 20th century it was very much a working class district. The housing conditions were described in 1931 by the Manchester and District Social Survey Society. Between the arrival of Owens College in 1873 and the 1940s the college and the university it became slowly expanded into the adjacent residential areas which had by then a mostly working class population including many of Irish descent. However, during the early years of the 21st century the University of Manchester undertook an extensive Capital Development Project which was followed by a partnership with the city council and other bodies called Corridor Manchester. Together these have changed the face of Oxford Road to a remarkable extent.


Geography

The M13 postcode district includes both
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and Chorlton on Medlock, although the area east of Boundary Lane and west of the Dental Hospital has a
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(M15) postcode, and Greenheys is now in
Moss Side Moss Side is an Inner city, inner-city area of Manchester, England, south of the Manchester city centre, city centre. It had a population of 20,745 at the United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 census. Moss Side is bounded by Hulme to the north, Cho ...
ward rather than Chorlton on Medlock. The River Medlock is the boundary with
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, which includes the Sackville Street campus of the
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(or "North Campus" rather than "South Campus"). A large area of Chorlton on Medlock south-west of this is occupied by the
Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester Metropolitan University is located in the centre of Manchester, England. The university has 40,000 students and over 4,000 members of staff. It is home to four faculties (Arts and Humanities, Business and Law, Health and Education ...
.


Transport

Chorlton on Medlock is crossed by the Mancunian Way (opened 1967), running west to east through its northern part. The main routes through the suburb to south Manchester are (west to east) Cambridge Street (leading to Higher Cambridge Street, Lloyd Street North and Upper Lloyd Street), Oxford Road (leading to
Wilmslow Road Wilmslow Road is a major road in Manchester, England, running from Parrs Wood northwards to Rusholme where it becomes the Oxford Road. The name of the road changes again to Oxford Street when it crosses the River Medlock before reaching Manchest ...
; the busiest route, both for private and public transport), and Upper Brook Street (dual carriageway continuing from Princess Street and leading to Anson Road).


Landmarks

The façade of the former
Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall is a former municipal building in Cavendish Street in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England. The structure, of which only the façade is original, is a Grade II listed building. History 19th century After signif ...
can be seen at its original location on Cavendish Street. The building, with its Doric
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, dates from 1830–31 and was designed by Richard Lane. In Nelson Street the former home of the Pankhurst family is now the
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. The Ormond Building of the Manchester Metropolitan University was originally the home of the Chorlton Union Board of Guardians (responsible under the 1834
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for most of what is now south Manchester). Next to the town hall building is the original building of the Manchester College of Art (1880–81: architect
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) in a
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style. Further down Oxford Road are the University of Manchester (frontage built 1888–1902), the former Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (1886),
Manchester Royal Infirmary Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) is a large NHS teaching hospital in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England. Founded by Charles White in 1752 as part of the voluntary hospital movement of the 18th century, it is now a major regional and nati ...
(1908) and the
Whitworth Art Gallery The Whitworth is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing over 60,000 items in its collection. The gallery is located in Whitworth Park and is part of the University of Manchester. In 2015, the Whitworth reopened after it was transfor ...
(1898–1908).


Religion

The parish church of All Saints (1820) and the earlier Church of St Luke (founded before 1804 but a new church was built by John Lowe in 1865; part of Old Chorlton Hall was used as the rectory)Fleetwood-Hesketh, Peter (1955) ''Murray's Lancashire Architectural Guide''. London: John Murray; p. 160 (to the east) have been demolished as have several other
Anglican church Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...
es in this area. Anglican churches which are disused include St Stephen's ( E. H. Shellard, 1853), St Paul's (Clegg & Knowles, 1862), and St Ambrose (H. C. Charlewood, 1884): these have all been demolished apart from St Ambrose which was used by the University of Manchester as an Islamic prayer room but the prayer room is now elsewhere. In Greenheys there was formerly an Anglican church of St Clement on Denmark Road (architect Henry R. Price, 1881, decorated by John Lowe, 1886). The oldest
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in Chorlton-on-Medlock was the Church of the Holy Name on Oxford Road (built between 1869 and 1871), a fine example of the work of the architect Joseph Aloysius Hansom. St Augustine's, Granby Row (demolished in 1908 to allow expansion at the Municipal College of Technology) was replaced by a second St Augustine's in York Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock (ruined by German bombing in 1940 during World War II): its successor is at Lower Ormond Street on the
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campus in a building which serves also as a chaplaincy to the University. This church was built in dark brick to the designs of Desmond Williams & Associates in 1967–68. It replaced an earlier church of the Holy Family which was at first a chapel-of-ease to St Augustine's, then an independent parish, but a chapel-of-ease again from 1908 to 1940 when it became the parish church of St Augustine's parish. The Armenian church in Upper Brook Street was the first purpose-built
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in Western Europe. It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity and opened at Easter 1870. The architects were Royle & Bennett, 1869–70, and they chose an eclectic neo-Gothic style. At the east end is a rounded apse and the interior is simple though the altar is elaborate. There were also several Nonconformist chapels (most of them now demolished) such as the Cavendish Street
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, Cavendish Street (architect Edward Walters, 1847–48), the Union Chapel on Oxford Road, Plymouth Grove Wesleyan Methodist Church (built 1879) on the corner of Hyde Grove and Plymouth Grove and a
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chapel at All Saints. The chapel in Cavendish Street was a particularly fine
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building but was demolished in the early 1970s to allow expansion by
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. It replaced an earlier chapel in
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. The Welsh Baptist Chapel, on Upper Brook Street, was designed in the early 19th century by
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, who designed the
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shortly afterwards, and in Greenheys there was a German Protestant Church in Wright Street (ca. 1871). The
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's Manchester Central corps is based at Manchester Temple, Grosvenor Street. It was founded in 1879 and a modern Salvation Army building stands on the site of the original one, and is called Manchester Central. There are two mosques in Chorlton-on-Medlock, the Salimiya Mosque and the Islamic Academy of Manchester, Upper Brook Street (in the building of the former Welsh Baptist Chapel). The former church of St Ambrose was used by the University of Manchester as an Islamic prayer room for several years. There are prayer rooms at the University of Manchester and at the Manchester Metropolitan University in Oxford Road.


Notable people

See also List of people from Manchester


19th century

* William Worby Beaumont (1848–1929), automotive engineer and inventor * Maud Boyd (1867–1929), actress and operatic singer * James Braid 1795-1860, Scottish born surgeon and hypnotist, lived and died at 212 Oxford Street (on the exact site of the quadrangle of Manchester University). * Walter Arthur Copinger, lawyer and scholar, lived in Greenheys. *
Thomas De Quincey Thomas Penson De Quincey (; Thomas Penson Quincey; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his ''Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'' (1821).Eaton, Horace Ainsworth, ''Thomas De Q ...
, writer, also lived at Greenheys: he was born at Cross Street, Manchester. *
Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ;"Engels"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.
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and philosopher; the site of his lodging is commemorated by a plaque on Aberdeen House, Whitworth Park Halls of Residence. *
Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (''née'' Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian era, Victoria ...
lived in a house at 84 Plymouth Grove for the last 15 years of her life. *
William Gaskell William Gaskell (24 July 1805 – 12 June 1884) was an English Unitarian minister, charity worker and pioneer in the education of the working class. The husband of novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, he was himself a writer and poet, and ...
, Nonconformist minister and writer, husband of Elizabeth Gaskell *
David Lloyd George David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. A Liberal Party (United Kingdom), Liberal Party politician from Wales, he was known for leadi ...
, British
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, was born here in 1863 but his family soon returned to Wales. *
George Gissing George Robert Gissing ( ; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. In the 1890s he was considered one of the three greatest novelists in England, and by the 1940s he had been ...
1857–1903, writer, lived on Grafton Street when he was a student at Owens College in 1876. *
Charles Hallé Sir Charles Hallé (born Karl Halle; 11 April 181925 October 1895) was a Prussian and British pianist and conductor. In 1858, he founded the Hallé Orchestra. Life Charles Frederick Hallé was born Carl Friederich Halle on 10 April 1819 in H ...
, musician, lived at Greenheys for a time. * Alfred Lucas, analytical chemist, involved in the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb * Lilly Maxwell, first woman to vote in Britain after the
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, at the Chorlton Town Hall in 1868 * Samuel Mendel, businessman, later built Manley Hall. * John Owens the merchant (after whom
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was named) lived in Nelson Street. *
Robert Angus Smith Robert Angus Smith Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (15 February 1817 – 12 May 1884), commonly referred to as Angus Smith, was a Scottish chemist, who investigated numerous environmental issues. He is known for his research on air pollutio ...
, Scottish chemist, had his laboratory in Grosvenor Square. * Lily Elsie, noted Edwardian stage actress, singer, spent part of her childhood here.
Photos of Elsie, arranged by show
*
Leslie Stuart Leslie Stuart (15 March 1863 – 27 March 1928) born Thomas Augustine Barrett was an English composer of Edwardian musical comedy, best known for the hit show ''Florodora'' (1899) and many popular songs. He began in Manchester as a church orga ...
, composer of Edwardian musicals, lived at 18 Lime Grove for a time, he was organist at the Church of the Holy Name. *
Jerome Caminada Jerome Caminada (1844 – March 1914) was a 19th-century police officer in Manchester, England. Caminada served with the police between 1868 and 1899, and has been called Manchester's Sherlock Holmes. In 1897 he became the city's first CID super ...
, police detective and supposed inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, lived on Cecil Street Greenheys. * Annie Swynnerton, symbolist artist, lived on 44 Dover Street. *
Ellen Wilkinson Ellen Cicely Wilkinson (8 October 1891 – 6 February 1947) was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Education, Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Earlier in her care ...
, Labour Party politician, was born here at 44 Coral Street in 1891. In 1913 she graduated from the University of Manchester, Oxford Road. * Eddowes Bowman, Educationalist and
astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers observe astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, galax ...
, was buried at Upper Brook Street Chapel. * John Edward Taylor (1791–1844), founder of ''
The Manchester Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...
'' newspaper in 1820, renamed ''
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'' in 1959, was buried in the former Rusholme Road Cemetery, now called Gartside Gardens.


20th century

* James Bernard, reciter, elocutionist, author, born in Chorlton-on-Medlock in 1874 * John Cassidy, sculptor, worked at a studio in Lincoln Grove, also lodged in the district. *
Johnny Roadhouse John Roadhouse (13 January 1921 – 11 April 2009) was a British musician who specialised in saxophone. Biography Roadhouse was born in Sheffield, but lived in Moss Side, Manchester from an early age. He taught himself how to play the saxophon ...
(1921–2009), British saxophonist, opened the music shop Johnny Roadhouse Music in 1955 on Oxford Road. * Catherine Chisholm, general practitioner and paediatrician: the first woman to study medicine at
Manchester Medical School The School of Medical Sciences is the medical school of the University of Manchester, located in Manchester, England. It is the third oldest medical school in England and the largest medical school in the United Kingdom, with around 6,000 und ...
, practised in Oxford Road and was medical officer of the
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in Dover Street, 1908–38. She retired in 1948 having founded the Manchester Babies' Hospital (afterwards the Duchess of York Hospital) in 1914. Originally this was in Chorlton-on-Medlock but soon moved to Levenshulme and then to Burnage.Mohr, Peter D. (2003) "Dr Catherine Chisholm (1879–1952) of the Manchester Babies' Hospital", in: ''Manchester Memoirs; vol. 140 (2001/02), pp. 21–30 *
Arthur Delaney Arthur McEvoy Delaney (9 December 1927 – 17 April 1987) was an English painter whose scenes of Manchester life were influenced by those of L. S. Lowry, gaining some popularity since his death. Delaney was born in 1927 in Chorlton upon Medl ...
(1927–1987), artist, was born at 30 Clifford Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock. He was inspired by the work of L. S. Lowry and the memories of the happy years he spent as a boy in the Manchester of the 1930s with its smoke-laden skies, rattling trams and gas lamps. * Eugene Halliday (1911–1987), artist, founder of the Institute for the Study of Hierological Values (now Eugene Halliday Society), lived as a child in Chorlton-on-Medlock. He studied at the Manchester School of Art in All Saints (see Landmarks above). A prolific writer, during the mid-1950s he wrote for the ''Cavendish Magazine'', published by the Congregational Chapel on Cavendish Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock (see Religion, above). *
Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst (; Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the women's suffrage, right to vote in United Kingdom of Great Brita ...
, a founder of the British
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movement, lived in Nelson Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, following her husband's death; the house is now the
Pankhurst Centre The Pankhurst Centre at 60–62 Nelson Street in Manchester, England, comprises a pair of Victorian villas, of which No. 62 was the home of Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Sylvia, Christabel and AdelaHartwell 2001, p 320 and the bi ...
. *
Ellen Wilkinson Ellen Cicely Wilkinson (8 October 1891 – 6 February 1947) was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Education, Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Earlier in her care ...
, Labour politician, Cabinet minister * L. S. Lowry, artist, attended
Manchester School of Art Manchester School of Art on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road in Manchester, England, was established in 1838 as the Manchester School of Design. It is the second-oldest art school in the United Kingdom after the Royal College of Art which was founded ...
in Chorlton-on-Medlock in 1905 and studied under
Pierre Adolphe Valette Pierre Adolphe Valette (13 October 1876 – 18 April 1942) was a French Impressionist painter who spent most of his career in England. His most acclaimed paintings are urban landscapes of Manchester, now in the collection of Manchester Art ...
. File:Student Health Centre, Chorlton-on-Medlock.jpg, Waterloo Place, 176-188 Oxford Road File:ManchesterMetUni-AllSaintsBldg-20070421.jpg, The All Saints Building on the Manchester Campus of the Metropolitan University File:Mancunian Way UMIST.jpg, A view of the Mancunian Way elevated motorway near what was
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campus File:Manchester Academy 1.jpg, Manchester Academy, south of University of Manchester Students' Union, Oxford Road File:The Salutation, Manchester.jpg, The Salutation public house in Higher Chatham Street File:Robert Angus Smith blue plaque .jpg, A
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Blue plaque commemorating Smith in Grosvenor Square, the site of R. Angus Smith's laboratory


See also

* Listed buildings in Manchester-M13 * Listed buildings in Manchester-M15 *
New Broadcasting House (Manchester) New Broadcasting House (NBH) was the BBC's North West England, North West England headquarters on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. The studios housed BBC Manchester, BBC North West, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra ...


References


Notes


Bibliography

* * Coates, Su (S. D. F. Thomas) (1991) "Manchester's German Gentlemen ... 1840–1920". In: ''Manchester Region History Review''; vol. 5, no. 2, 1991/2 * *


Further reading

*Kenyon, Margery ''Memories of Chorlton-on-Medlock''. Radcliffe: Neil Richardson *Makepeace, Chris (1995) ''Looking Back at Hulme, Moss Side, Chorlton on Medlock & Ardwick''. Altrincham: Willow *Potts, Bob (1997) ''The Old Pubs of Hulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock''. Radcliffe: Neil Richardson {{DEFAULTSORT:Chorlton-On-Medlock Areas of Manchester Academic enclaves