Holy Name Church
Grade I listed French Gothic Jesuit church with a hollow terracotta vault and a historic gallery organ.
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This guide to the Holy Name Church on Oxford Road in Manchester follows the man who sat at its gallery organ in the eighteen-eighties, a Southport-born church musician hired by the Jesuit preacher Bernard Vaughan. It moves from Sunday Masses under the terracotta vault to the music halls and stages of the eighteen-nineties, and asks what a church organist's talent was worth. Stand in the nave facing the west gallery, where the gilded angels sit above the choir loft.
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