Saint Ann's Church
Classical red-sandstone church of seventeen twelve, built as a Low Church rival with a historic organ.
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This guide to St Ann's Church in Manchester goes back to the early eighteenth century, when Lady Ann Bland, a Low Church Whig, paid for a new church while the town's only other one was the heart of the Jacobite cause. It is about how worship itself took sides: the glass in the windows, where the altar stood, and which church fashionable Manchester attended at which hour. Listen from the pews, then finish at the tower door.
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