Milton House on Manchester’s Deansgate is named after the poet and free-thinker John Milton, author of the famous poem, Paradise Lost.

The building was originally constructed in 1909-11 in Baroque style by Bradshaw and Gass, who also designed the Royal Exchange. It was the Congregational Church’s prime meeting place in the North West, one of many  church halls in the nearby area of Deansgate and Peter Street.

In more recent times it was home to the BBC Northern Orchestra and has recently been renovated ready for  new life.   The Congregationalists of the time were teetotallers so it is a little ironic that it has become a members’ club.

I haven’t been inside but the ceiling of the entrance porch suggests an opulent interior.

Milton Club, 244 Deansgate, Manchester.

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