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What is the tower at Strangeways?

Last updated July 19, 2022 by ZagBot Comment

The landmark tower at HM Prison Manchester, also known as Strangeways Prison, is a heating and ventilation extraction tower dating to the opening of the prison in 1868.

The 234-foot (or 71-meter) minaret-style octagonal tower is built of red brick with sandstone dressings, with an arched recess in each side, a perimeter gallery with brick balustraded parapet on stone corbels, and a domed cupola with louvred openings in the sides and cast-iron cresting to the roof. Despite its height and appearance, it was never a prison watchtower.

The tower is a listed structure, meaning that it is protected by official recognition as being of special architectural or historic interest.

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Manchester
Greater Manchester
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