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Staircase in the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, University of Manchester, 1942. Artist: GB Wood
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.
Unique Identifier
AR961804
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
3583px × 5090px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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1940s
20th century
Arch
Architectural Feature
Architecture
ARCHWAY
B&W
B/W
Basil
Basil Champneys
Black & White
Black and white
Carving
Champneys
DECADE
England
english heritage
FORTIES
GB
GB Wood
GOTHIC REVIVAL
Greater Manchester
INDOORS
INSIDE
interior
JOHN
John Rylands
Library
MANCHESTER
METAPHOR
Monochrome
Photograph
QUATREFOIL
Rylands
Staircase
STAIRWAY
stairway to heaven
STEP
STEPS
Stone
TGN
Wood