Ed Glinert, occasional RIBA judge and Manchester architecture expert, takes you on a remarkable whirlwind tour of the city's greatest aesthetic achievements:

* The Pre-Raphaelite paintings in the Art Gallery.

* The paintings of the Stations of the Cross at the Hidden Gem.

* The Golden Ratio proportions of Lutyens’s Midland Bank on King Street.

* The gargoyles at the John Rylands Library.

* The Georgian splendour of the bank manager’s house nearby…

This is Manchester at its most stylish and sophisticated.