Editing Manchester Central Library (section)

{{Short description|Listed building in Manchester, England}}
{{For|the library in Manchester, New Hampshire|Manchester City Library}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox Historic building
|name                    = Manchester Central Library
|image                   = At Manchester 2018 073.jpg
|caption                 = Manchester Central Library viewed from [[St Peter's Square, Manchester|St Peter's Square]]
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|coordinates             = {{coord|53.4781|-2.2447|display=inline,title}}
|location_town           = [[Manchester]]
|location_country        = United Kingdom
|architect               = [[E. Vincent Harris]]
|client                  = [[Manchester City Council|Manchester Corporation]]
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|construction_start_date = 1930
|completion_date         = 17 July 1934
|renovation_date         = 2010–2014
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|style                   = Neoclassical [[Rotunda (architecture)|rotunda]], [[Tuscan order|Tuscan]] [[colonnade]] in Portland stone, low pitched leaded roof and a two-storey, five-bay [[Corinthian order|Corinthian]] [[portico]] entrance.
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  {{Designation list
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  | designation1         = Grade II* Listed Building
  | designation1_offname = Central Public Library
  | designation1_date    = 3 October 1974
  | designation1_number  = {{NHLE|num=1270759|short=y|postscript=none}}
  }}
}}

'''Manchester Central Library''' is the headquarters of the [[Manchester Library & Information Service|city's library and information service]] in [[Manchester]], England. Facing [[St Peter's Square, Manchester|St Peter's Square]], it was designed by [[E. Vincent Harris]] and constructed between 1930 and 1934. The form of the building, a columned portico attached to a [[rotunda (architecture)|rotunda]] domed structure, is loosely derived from the [[Pantheon, Rome]]. At its opening, one critic wrote, "This is the sort of thing which persuades one to believe in the perennial applicability of the Classical canon".<ref>{{cite book|first=Julian|last=Holder|year=2007|chapter=Emanuel Vincent Harris and the survival of classicism in inter-war Manchester|editor1-first=Clare|editor1-last=Hartwell|editor2-first=Terry|editor2-last=Wyke|title=Making Manchester|publisher=Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society|isbn=978-0-900942-01-3}}</ref>
 
The library building is [[grade II* listed]].<ref>{{NHLE |num=1270759 |desc=Central Public Library |access-date= 7 November 2012}}</ref> A four-year project to renovate and refurbish the library commenced in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news |title=New chapter: £170m revamp of Manchester's Central Library takes shape |url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1459693_new-chapter-170m-revamp-of-manchesters-central-library-takes-shape |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |date=24 September 2011 |access-date=8 November 2011|last=Linton|first=Deborah|publisher=M.E.N. Media}}</ref> Central Library re-opened on 22 March 2014.