The Monastery Manchester
Victorian Franciscan friary church by Edward Welby Pugin, rescued from ruin and lined with stone saints.
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This guide to The Monastery in Gorton, Manchester, follows the Franciscan friars who arrived in eighteen sixty-one sworn to poverty, and the neighbours who begged for and built their church with their own hands. It moves through the friars' years of feeding and caring for local families, the stripping of the building after they left, and the couple who took on its ruin. Best heard standing in the nave, looking up at the saints along its walls.
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