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===Other notable buildings=== The University of Manchester estate includes over 30 [[listed building]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.estates.manchester.ac.uk/ourestate/|title=The facts...|website=Directorate of Estates and Facilities|publisher=University of Manchester|access-date=9 December 2024}}</ref> Besides the buildings some the Old Quadrangle, other notable buildings on the Oxford Road Campus include the [[Stephen Joseph Studio]], a former German Protestant church and the Samuel Alexander Building, a [[grade II listed building]]<ref name="English Heritage β List Entry Summary β Samuel Alexander Building">{{cite web |url=http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle_print.aspx?uid=1393664&showMap=1&showText=1 |title=List Entry Summary β Samuel Alexander Building |work=[[English Heritage]] |access-date=31 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103181011/http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle_print.aspx?uid=1393664&showMap=1&showText=1 |archive-date=3 November 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> erected in 1919 and home of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. Notable buildings on the Sackville Street Campus include the [[Sackville Street Building]], formerly the UMIST Main Building, which was opened in 1902 by the then [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], [[Arthur Balfour]].<ref name="campus_history">{{cite web |title=UMIST campus history |url=http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/teaching/civil/historic_construction/maps/umist.php |website=Mace.manchester.ac.uk |access-date=9 February 2008 |archive-date=21 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221114319/http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/teaching/civil/historic_construction/maps/umist.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Built using [[Burmantofts Pottery|Burmantofts]] [[Architectural terracotta|terracotta]], the building is now [[Grade II listed]]. It was extended along Whitworth Street, towards London Road, between 1927 and 1957 by the architects [[Bradshaw Gass & Hope]], completion being delayed due to the [[Great Depression|depression in the 1930s]] and the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{ cite book | title=Pevsner Architectural Guides β Manchester | last=Hartwell | first = Clare | year = 2001 |publisher= Penguin | isbn=0-14-071131-7 }}</ref><ref>''Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity: Portraits from our Past'', University of Manchester. 2013. p. 11</ref>
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