Title

Staircase in the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, University of Manchester, 1942

Caption

A staircase in the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, University of Manchester, 1942. It is an arched carved stone staircase decorated with quatrefoils on the inside of the arches. It was endowed in memory of John Rylands, a textile manufacturer, and built in the Gothic style to designs by the architect Basil Champneys between 1890-99. John Rylands was a textile manufacturer who in the 1840s took control of the family business Rylands & Sons Ltd, and developed it into one of the largest textile manufacturing and trading companies in Britain.

Date

1942

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19A77_142

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

52,2Mb (1,6Mb) / 11,9in x 17,0in / 3583 x 5090 (300dpi)

Keywords

England interior indoors library architecture archway arch stone carving steps step stairway century staircase inside B&W 1940s MONOCHROME metaphor Manchester Forties Architectural Feature quatrefoil black & white black and white B W Gothic Revival 20th century English Heritage decade Greater Manchester stairway to heaven TGN photograph John Basil GB Wood John Rylands Rylands Basil Champneys Champneys Wood GB John Rylands Basil Champneys photograph