| The Moon Under Water | |
| Former Names: | Deansgate Picture House Cannon Deansgate |
| Address: | 68–74 Deansgate |
| Location City: | Manchester |
| Location Country: | United Kingdom |
| Opened Date: | January 1914 (as a cinema) |
| Destruction Date: | --> |
| Owner: | JD Wetherspoon |
| Unit Count: | --> |
| Website: | Official |
The Moon Under Water is a pub in Manchester city centre, England, in the building of the former Deansgate Picture House cinema (an ABC cinema) on Deansgate;[1] it is one of the largest public houses in the United Kingdom. The pub is 8800square feet and can hold 1,700 customers.[2]
It is owned by the pub chain JD Wetherspoon who opened it on 15 August 1995, and named it after George Orwell's 1946 essay, "The Moon Under Water", describing his ideal pub.[3] It is one of 15 Wetherspoon pubs with the same name.[2] [4]