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to transform the building and preserve its book collection. The regeneration project would aim to unite all three original floors of the building for the first time in more than 100 years. The ground floor and basement would be changed to a "northern bookshop" with educational activities, dining and
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The Portico Library, in conjunction with its cultural partners and funders, hosts a series of literary prizes throughout the year to celebrate writers and poets from Northern England and beyond. The Portico Prize for Literature was established in 1985 and awarded biennially to a work of fiction or
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The library was established as a result of a meeting of Manchester businessmen in 1802 which resolved to found an "institute uniting the advantages of a newsroom and a library". A visit by four of the men to the
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poetry and a work of non-fiction set wholly or mainly in the north of England. The library launched the Sadie Massey Award to celebrate the North West's young writers in 2015.
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in Liverpool inspired them to achieve a similar institution in Manchester. Money was raised through 400 subscriptions from Manchester men and the library opened in 1806.
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of Ionic semi-columns has tall sashed windows on the ground floor in each bay and square window above at first floor level. The attic storey is behind a
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exhibition areas and meeting spaces, while the upper floors would showcase the library's unique book collection, manuscript archive and architecture.
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columns set slightly forward and steps between the columns. Under the loggia are two entrance doors and three square windows at first floor level.
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The Charlotte Street façade has an entrance into the loggia with a square window above and another on the first floor. A five-bay
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that leased the property in 1921. The library occupies what became the first floor with its entrance on Charlotte Street.
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In November 2023, it was announced that the library had been awarded a £453,000 grant from the
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on a corner site at 57 Mosley Street. It has two storeys, a basement and roof space. Its
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Tradition in action: the historical evolution of the Greater Manchester County
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The library, mainly focused on 19th-century literature, was designed by
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and its secretary was Peter Mark Roget. Other notable members include
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of Chester and built between 1802 and 1806. It is recorded in the
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Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, his City and the Plague
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Portico Prize
The Portico Library
53°28′47″N 2°14′25″W / 53.47972°N 2.24028°W / 53.47972; -2.24028
Mosley Street
Manchester
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Mosley Street
Manchester
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Greek Revival
Thomas Harrison
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Blue plaque
Thomas Harrison (architect)
Richard Cobden
John Dalton
Elizabeth Gaskell
Robert Peel
Thomas De Quincey
Peter Mark Roget
Athenaeum
Thomas Harrison
Lyceum
David Bellhouse
Peter Mark Roget
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