The history and architecture of Chetham's School and Library
By: by Clare Hartwell.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Chetham family.; Chetham's School of Music.; Chetham's Library.; Architecture -- England -- Manchester.; Manchester (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Manchester (England) -- History.
Description: "This fully illustrated book is the first comprehensive account of the Chetham's building and its turbulent history." "The book fills a gap in English architectural history, offers new insights into a little-studied building type, and provides fascinating details of the seventeenth-century conversion drawn from original documents describing how the building was adapted."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-141) and index.