The
Stopford Building The Stopford Building
sits on Oxford Road between Ackers Street and Grafton
Street. This brown brick building was designed by
Harry Fairhurst and Son. The School of Medicine's
website says this about the building, "The
Stopford Building was opened in 1973 and took in 200
medical, 60 dental, and 20 nursing students.
With a further 75 medical students from the University
of St Andrews taken into the clinical years,
Manchester had become one of the largest medical
schools in the world." Today the building
is linked to the Biotech Building that was added in
1999.
 A concrete frieze,
designed by Antony Hollaway, runs around the top
of the Stopford Building
 The building is
named after John Stopford, later Lord Stopford of
Fallowfield, who at the age of 31 was appointed as
Professor of Anatomy at Manchester University in
1919. He was later made a Vice-Chancellor of
the University.
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