Mabel Tylecote Building - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Architect City Architect's Department Date Built 1973 Location Oxford Road & Cavendish Street Description Located on the corner of Oxford Road and Cavendish Street, the Mabel Tylecote Building was built in 1973 to a design by the City Architect's Department.  It started life as a college for adult education but was adopted by MMU in 1991.  The building is home to the Capitol Theatre, the performance space for the university's drama students within the Faculty of Art and Design. The School of Theatre started life as the drama department of the Northern School of Music in the 1960s.  It became part of MMU in 1970 and at that time their performance space was a former ABC cinema in Didsbury called the Capitol Building.  The School of Theatre moved to the All Saints Campus in 1998 and set up home in the Mabel Tylecote Building. Close Window