St James Buildings, Manchester

St James Buildings is a high-rise, Grade II listed building on Oxford Street, in Manchester, England, completed in 1912. The building was constructed in the Edwardian Baroque style and has a Portland stone exterior reaching a maximum height of 60 metres (200 ft).

The building opened in 1912 as the headquarters of the Calico Printers' Association Ltd, a company formed in 1899 from the amalgamation of 46 textile printing companies and 13 textile merchants. Companies involved in the merger included F. W. Grafton & Co, Edmund Potter & Co, Hoyle's Prints Ltd, John Gartside & Co, F. W. Ashton & Co, Rossendale Printing Company, Hewit & Wingate Ltd, and the Thornliebank Company Ltd.

The renovated building is leased to other businesses by its owner Bruntwood.^{[2][non-primary source needed]} As of February 2025, notable lessees include Kaplan Financial Ltd,^[3] BPP Law School,^[4] the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service^[5] and the Manchester city centre campus for Edge Hill University,^[6] mainly for their paramedic and operating department practitioner courses.

The building is Edwardian Baroque in style, has a Portland stone exterior and reaches a maximum height of 60 metres (200 ft). The architects Clegg, Fryer & Penman designed the long façade with three slightly protruding pavilions with grossly inflated pilasters and pediments; in the centre the principal pediment is topped by a stumpy tower which breaks through the cornice line. The lowest third of the façade is emphasised by rustication and by having a more elaborate arrangement of windows.^[7]

• Listed buildings in Manchester-M1
• Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building, which faces the St. James Buildings across Oxford Street