1885 – High Altar, West Gorton Franciscan Church, Manchester, Lancashire
Architect: Pugin & Pugin
A Grade II* listed former Franciscan friary.
A Grade II* listed former Franciscan friary.
Perspective view including ground plan,
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe,
Proposed Presbyterian Chapel – perspective view,
The building cost £5,100 and catered for services in the local parish that had previously been held in rooms or temporary buildings.
Consecrated in 1886, built over a schoolroom and it is entered up stairs to a doorway in the tower,
The church was built on a sloping site donated by Mr Vere Fane Bennett-Stanford of Preston Manor.
Constructed in two stages, the main body of the church 1884-86,
Described in The Irish Builder,