Touchstones Rochdale

Touchstones Rochdale is an art gallery, museum, local studies centre, visitor information centre and café forming part of the Central Library, Museum and Art Gallery in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.

[2] The first part of the stone building was opened as a library in 1884 with the museum and gallery being added in 1903 and extended in 1913.

[4] The art gallery and museum were built and linked to the library in 1903, and an extension added in 1913.

[7][8] The collection includes a painting by Katherine Ashton Simpson (1858–1951),[9] of her sister, the writer, composer and artist Florence Eva Simpson, known as Elva Lorence (1865–1923).

The library has one storey, a front of three gables with ball finials, a central porch with an arcaded parapet, an elliptical-headed doorway, and mullioned and transomed windows with elliptical heads and hood moulds.