Victoria Tower
Tower on Castle Hill overlooking Huddersfield, constructed as a permanent memorial for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
Sicilian Baroque
Distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the 17th and 18th centuries that has given the island a unique architectural identity.
Hulme Arch Bridge
Bridge in Hulme, Manchester, England, supporting Stretford Road as it passes over Princess Road, part of the regeneration of that area of Manchester.
Spandrel
Roughly triangular space above and on either side of an arch.
Brig o’ Doon
Late medieval bridge in Ayrshire, Scotland, best known as the setting for the final verse of Robert Burns’s poem Tam o’ Shanter.
Wigan Pier
Area around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, a wharf where coal from a nearby colliery was transferred from wagons into canal barges via an iron tippler. It was demolished in 1929.
Lytham Pier
Pleasure and working pier opened in the seaside town of Lytham, Lancashire, England in 1865, demolished in 1960.
Piece Hall
Rare example of a large-scale cloth hall – an exchange for trading woollen and worsted cloth “pieces” – that is largely intact.
Frank Matcham
English theatre architect and designer, responsible for the design and construction of more than ninety theatres and the redesign and refurbishment of a further eighty throughout the United Kingdom.
Renishaw Hall
Country house to the west of Renishaw village in Derbyshire England, home to the Sitwell family since the early 17th century.