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Minshull Street Crown Court

Crown Court in Manchester, England

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name	Minshull Street Crown Court
image	Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester.jpg
caption	Minshull Street Crown Court
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location	Manchester, England
map_type	Greater Manchester
years_built	1868–71
architect	Thomas Worthington
architectural_style	Gothic Revival
owner	Ministry of Justice
designations	{{Designation list
embed	yes
designation1	Grade II* Listed Building
designation1_offname	City Police Courts
designation1_date	3 October 1974
designation1_number

Minshull Street Crown Court is a complex of court buildings on Minshull Street in Manchester, England. The court was designated a Grade II* listed building on 3 October 1974. It is one of two Crown Courts in Manchester, the other being Manchester Crown Court.

History

Police Courts showing the 1990s extension

The foundation stone for the building was laid by the mayor on 10 July 1868. The building was designed by the architect Thomas Worthington and was completed in December 1871.

The building is in Worthington's trademark Gothic Revival style, with a massive corner tower and a chimney stack styled as a campanile. The courts are constructed in red brick with sandstone dressings and steeply pitched slate roofs. There is a profusion of animal carving by Earp and Hobbs. Worthington drew both on his rejected designs for Manchester Town Hall, and on his earlier plans for Ellen Wilkinson High School, although the central tower he used there is placed asymmetrically at the Police Courts, due to the constraints of the site. The interior court rooms "have been preserved with relatively few alterations."

Following the completion of new Courts of Justice in Crown Square in May 1961, the Lord Chancellor's Department decided to close the Minshull Street building in 1989, but as the volume of cases increased in the early 1990s, the department decided to re-open the Minshull Street building again to support the Courts of Justice in Crown Square.

Notable cases include the conviction of the gambler, Ming Jiang, in February 2023, for the murder of his gambling companion, Yang Liu, whose headless body was found on a country lane.

References

Sources

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References

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"City Police and Sessions Courts Minshull Street, Manchester".
Glinert, Ed. (2008). "The Manchester Compendium: A Street-by-Street History of England's Greatest Industrial City". Penguin Books Limited.
(1 August 2016). "Law Courts and Courtrooms 1: The Buildings of the Criminal Law".
"Manchester Minshull Street".
O'Donogue, Matt. (3 April 2017). "Headless body murder trial at Manchester Crown Court". ITV News.
Slater, Chris. (11 September 2017). "A man who murdered his gambling pal has been ordered to pay back the money he stole. But he's refusing to co-operate.". Manchester Evening News.
(2 May 2017). "Body-in-suitcase trial: Gambler jailed for murdering friend". BBC News.

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