Churches in and around Manchester

[celeste]

Hidden Gem - St. Mary's, Mulberry Street, Manchester

[tuffy52]

My local church, St Mary's Failsworth,1950s Modernism, Not mad keen.

[celeste]

St. Mary's church, Prestwich

[tuffy52]

Gothic,that's more my style.

[celeste]

ok
St. John's Sale

[celeste]

St. Mary's Church, Lymm

[Adsum]

St. Annes Church Manchester.

[puggy]

Does anyone know whether Philips Park Cemetery used to have a church near an entrance c1914? I have a photo of my Grandfather with my Aunt standing in the road (on an 'island' with a drinking fountain). In the background is a church and graveyard and the photo is labelled "Philips Park Cemetery" ?

[Joynson]

 On either side of the main entrance there were buildings.
 On the side nearest the gasometer there was a house, occupied i think by the chief cemetery official.
 On the other side were the offices, containing the hand drawn and coloured plans of the graveyard grave numbers and rows,burial records ,various denominations and where you could purchase a grave plot.
 This was larger than the house and could be mistaken for a church.
 I remember the island with the remains of the drinking fountain. There were several  more in the park, one near  the entrance  just over the River Medlock, where  a  little further along  the path were the ponds. This was a memorial to one of Queen Victoria`s Jubilees, either 50 or 60 years. 
 Could you post the photo? it would be nice to see it.Joynson. Incedentally when the office closed the records went to Blakeley cem.

[Adsum]

Does anyone know whether Philips Park Cemetery used to have a church near an entrance c1914? I have a photo of my Grandfather with my Aunt standing in the road (on an 'island' with a drinking fountain). In the background is a church and graveyard and the photo is labelled "Philips Park Cemetery" ?

I think there were originally three chapels within the cemetery. There is a lot of history connected to that cemetery. There are three VC recipients buried in there, including one man who won his VC at Rorkes drift, made famous in the film Zulu.

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[Joynson]

 I can certainly remember at least two but the buildings  at the gates were not chapels .
 
There was one at the back near Briscoe Lane, one quite near  where the River Medlock formed the boundary between the cemetery and the park, also  a little building in the Jewish cemetery just where the small back road formed the boundary between the Catholic cemetery and the Protestant( CofE and Nonconformist )parts.
 There might have also been one in the R.C. part but I never actually went in that part.
The Medlock was contained in the red brick channel after floods in Victorian times when it washed away the banks and many graves were washed away and coffins were floating down by Holt town, Beswick where the culverted river emerges for a short distance before going underground again. Joynson.

[Adsum]

Below is a Google earth shot of Philips Park Cemetery.



The pink arrow shows what was the last remaining chapel, although I'm not sure if it's still there. The Yellow arrow I think denotes where there was a smaller chapel although again I'm not 100% certain. The green arrow on the right of the picture shows where the Roman Catholic chapel used to be. This also has been demolished and is now just a turning circle. There wasn't a chapel close to the entrance. There was the Sextants home and the office where you booked in when a funeral arrived for a  burial service.

[TickTock]

[TickTock]

The above church is St Peters  C o E   Blackley  village, i used to go every week from our nearby school, as we all marched through the village with the headmaster leading the way.

[puggy]

 I remember the island with the remains of the drinking fountain. There were several  more in the park, one near  the entrance  just over the River Medlock, where  a  little further along  the path were the ponds. This was a memorial to one of Queen Victoria`s Jubilees, either 50 or 60 years. 
 Could you post the photo? it would be nice to see it.Joynson. Incedentally when the office closed the records went to Blakeley cem.

Thanks Joynson, I will have to check with the owner of the photo, but I'm sure it will be no problem. I received a disc from a recently discovered 2nd cousin living in Canada which has a collection of photos(c 1911-1914) taken by his grandfather(my great uncle). I have managed to identify some scenes and people and passed on the info to him.