Extensive refurbishment of the glazing scheme (six hundred leaded glass panels)

2005/6/7
Current Conservation Architect – Lloyd Evans Prichard

Originally designed by Basil Champneys and inaugurated in 1899, it is one of the finest neo-Gothic buildings in Europe, housing rare collections of books, manuscripts and a world renowned archive on the cotton industry.

Each of the six hundred leaded panels, composed of spun glass roundels, were completely dismantled, carefully cleaned, re-leaded and refitted. This huge undertaking, involved approximately 3,000 square feet of re-leading with over sixty thousand individual roundels. Nine thousand new roundels were especially blown and imported from Lambert's of Germany (in six different shades) to replace originals that were lost or broken.

John Rylands Library, Manchester