| Dalton-Ellis Hall | |
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| Hall of Residence | |
| University of Manchester | |
 The "Main Hall" block at Dalton-Ellis | |
| Location | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Established | 1987 as Dalton-Ellis |
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| Gender | co-ed |
| Principal | Timothy Stibbs |
| Residents | 279 |
| Blocks | 5 (Main Hall, Sutherland, Fiddes, Ewings and Graham) |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | Dalton Hall with attached forecourt walls |
| Designated | 2 October 1974 |
| Reference no. | 1208904 |
Dalton-Ellis Hall is ahall of residence complex at theUniversity of Manchester inManchester, England. It is situated in the south of the city on Conyngham Road inVictoria Park, next toSt Chrysostom's Church. It is close toWilmslow Road inRusholme. Dalton-Ellis has 279 male and female residents in catered accommodation. The hall admits bothundergraduate andpostgraduate students; most are undergraduate first years.
The complex comprises several residential blocks built at various stages. They include theGrade II listed Main Hall,[1] the first purpose-built hall of residence in England,[2] opened in 1882, the Nield Wing extension to Main Hall, Fiddes, Graham, Ewings, and Sutherland built in 1994. Dalton-Ellis Hall has a second Grade II listed block, Eaglesfield, which is not currently in use.
Sunnyside houses the complex's library and music rooms and other facilities include a squash court, tennis courts, croquet lawn, and a bar. There is acomputer cluster and a reading room. The hall also has a history of sporting success fielding rugby, hockey, netball, cricket, football and croquet teams.
The Dalton-Ellis Hall complex is a product of the merger of Dalton Hall and Ellis Llwyd Jones Hall in 1987. The history of the separate halls goes back to the 19th century.
Dalton Hall was founded by theQuakers in 1876 as accommodation for students from a Quaker background attendingOwens College, the forerunner to the University of Manchester. It was named afterJohn Dalton, a scientist and Quaker in the city. At the time Owens College was one of only two institutions in the country to admitdissenters.[3] The hall moved to the building currently used as Dalton-Ellis's Main Hall in 1882. The building, like the neighbouring St Chrysostom's Church was designed byGeorge T Redmayne.
In 1892 the largeVictorian house now known as Eaglesfield was bought to increase the hall's capacity. In the early years of the 20th century, its capacity was increased with the addition of the Nield Wing extension to Main Hall, which contained more rooms and aJunior Common Room. Dalton Hall became a university hall of residence in 1958. Although the original intention was to admit both men and women, once the university started to admit women, this proposal was dropped and Dalton Hall remained a male only hall until it merged with Ellis Llywd Jones Hall in 1987.
Between February and September of 2023, internal decoration of Graham and Ewings were refurbished.
Ellis Llwyd Jones Hall was founded in 1919 as a female only hall. The hall was originally built inOld Trafford, but was moved brick by brick to Victoria Park in 1981. It was named after Ellis Llwyd Jones, son of Sir James Jones who donated the hall to the university in memory of his son.
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