Withington - Landmarks

Landmarks

Withington today retains some grade II listed buildings, including

• Hough End Hall (1596), Nell Lane, Chorlton-cum-Hardy – Withington Manor house.
• Manchester and County Bank (1890), Wilmslow Road – now a National Westminster Bank.
• St Paul's Parish Church, Wilmslow Road (1841).
• The Red Lion Inn (17th century).
• The Victoria public house.
• The White Lion public house, Wilmslow Road (1841), now a Sainsbury's Local.

Other places of historical interest in Withington include:

• Christie Hospital – founded in 1892, the hospital moved to Withington in 1932. It is one of the largest cancer research and treatment centres in Europe. Christie's pioneered the therapeutic use of X-Rays in 1901, and in 1944 the world's first clinical drug trial was carried out here.

• The Scala Cinema (1912–2008), Wilmslow Road – this was the oldest cinema in Manchester. Later renamed Cine City, it is now demolished and the site is awaiting redevelopment.
• Milestone, Wilmslow Road – outside the fire station, inscribed "8¼ miles to Wilmslow / 4 miles to Manchester to centre of St. Anns"
• The Old Forge, Wilmslow Road (1881) – now private flats.
• St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic Church, Wilmslow Road (1881).
• The Water Trough (1876), now on Copson Street – a stone drinking trough for horses, inscribed with an Old Testament passage: "that ye may drink, both ye and your cattle, and your beasts." (II Kings III:17).
• Withington Library (1927), Wilmslow Road, designed by Henry Price.
• Withington Methodist Church, Wilmslow Road (1865).