Thats not actually the royal that Kev mate. The building with the tower was actually purpose built for the University and was the first 'Red brick university'. Easy to confuse though as both this and the Royal were designed by the same architect, Alfred Waterhouse. Same man who designed the seaman's orphanage in Newsham park and the Northwestern hotel on the front of Lime street station (Aswell as Manchester town hall and St Pancras hotel in London. Love the picture of the tower with the cathedral behind. Shame it's not of the Lutyen's cathedral eh. That tower would have fitted in the arch of the entrance porch according to Lutyens.