Basic Biographical Details Name: | Clegg Fryers & Penman | Designation: | | Born: | | Died: | | Bio Notes: | In 1911 -12 Fryers & Penman's Paisley connections with the Coats and Clark families brought the commission for what was probably the largest commercial office building in the UK, St James' Buiolding on Oxford Street, Manchester for the Calico Printers' Association, seven storeys and attics high and twenty-seven bays long to the street and containing 1,000 rooms. For this project they entered into a short-term partnership or association with the long-established Manchester practice of Charles Clegg & Son as Clegg, Fryers & Penman. The elder Clegg (b.1828) was then 83 years old and it seems likely that the effective partner was his son Charles Theodore Clegg (b.1861). The project was completed in 1913, the Cleggs then reverting to the practice title Charles Clegg & Son.
| Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 21, Spring Gardens, Manchester, England | Business | 1911 | 1913 | |
Buildings and DesignsThis was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): | | Date started | Building name | Town, district or village | Island | City or county | Country | Notes | | 1909 | St James Buildings | | | Manchester | England | Alexander Thomson Heathcote responsible, as chief assistant in Fryers & Penman and then Clegg Fryers & Penman |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Hartwell, Clare | 2001 | Manchester (Pevsner Architectural Guides) | | Yale University Press | p181 | | John J Parkinson-Bailey | 2000 | Manchester, an Architectural History | | Manchester UP | p137 (ill) |
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