The Harris – a combination of museum, art gallery and public library – re-opens on Sunday after a £19 million renovation, part-funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, which gave £6.3 million.

It’s a wonderful late Victorian building, designed by James Hibbert, described by Pevsner as ‘widely unknown’.  He was actually the Mayor of Preston and was certainly able to design in a convincing Greek Revival style, as Pevsner, says, more like Glasgow than elsewhere in England:-

Inside is a wonderful triple-storey, top-lit atrium with casts of the Elgin marbles:-

And the frieze:-

I hope the exhibition of Wallace and Gromit will encourage people to visit.