St. Ann's Square
Tree-lined Georgian square framed by a patchwork red sandstone church, statues and the Royal Exchange.
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This guide to St Ann's Square in Manchester looks hard at the red church at its southern end, founded by Lady Ann Bland in the early seventeen hundreds, and asks why one building seems to be made of so many different stones. It follows the soft local sandstone, the quarries that fed it, and a rector who watched his church shed pieces from above. Best heard standing close enough to the church wall to touch it.
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