The University Dental Hospital of Manchester is part of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is made up of five hospitals: Manchester Royal Infirmary; Royal Manchester Children's Hospital; St Mary's Hospital, Manchester; Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and University Dental Hospital of Manchester.-Services:As the leading provider of...

. The Dental Hospital was established in 1884 in association with the School of Medicine at Owens College. It was then at Grosvenor Street, Chorlton on Medlock and in 1892 removed to another house, in Devonshire Street. Fund raising was slow in response to a public appeal and only in 1908 was the hospital able to occupy a new building on Oxford Road next to the Manchester Museum

Manchester Museum

The Manchester Museum is owned by the University of Manchester. Sited on Oxford Road at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides access to about six million items from every continent and serves both as a resource for academic research and teaching and as a regional...

, designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by the architects Charles Heathcote & Sons. In 1905 the University established a degree and a diploma in dental surgery (these were first awarded in 1909 and 1908 respectively). A contribution from Godfrey Ermen towards the cost of building the hospital is recorded on a stone tablet near the entrance.

In the 1940s a new hospital was built further west on Bridgeford Street through the generosity of Sir Samuel Turner (architect Hubert Worthington

Hubert Worthington

-Early life:Worthington was born at Chorley, Alderley Edge, the youngest son of the architect Thomas Worthington. He was educated at Sedbergh School from 1900–1905 and then at the Manchester University school of architecture, before being articled to his half-brother Percy...

, 1939–40): later this was extended from three wings to four, by the south wing of 1951-52. Turner (1878–1955) also endowed a Dental School at the Victoria University of Manchester

Victoria University of Manchester

The Victoria University of Manchester was a university in Manchester, England. On 1 October 2004 it merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to form a new entity, "The University of Manchester".-1851 - 1951:The University was founded in 1851 as Owens College,...

; the Dental School and Hospital donation was £99,000.

This is now the University Dental Hospital of Manchester and more recently has been enlarged by the construction of an additional top floor in the 1990s. The old hospital building was later used for scientific teaching and later still by the Manchester Museum which still occupies it.