Salford Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
Gothic Revival Catholic cathedral with a tall stone spire and donors' chantry chapels by the altar.
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This guide to Salford Cathedral, on Chapel Street just across the river from central Manchester, starts with the crowd that gathered on Whit Thursday in 1844 and the question of who paid for the church they came to see begun. It follows a calico printer who owned no print works, a fellow businessman, and the fast-growing Irish Catholic workforce of early Victorian Manchester. Best heard walking slowly toward the east end, with an eye on the corners beyond the altar.
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