Posts Tagged: church

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March 2012: Manchester’s post-war chapels, churches & chaplaincies

This is a combined walk+bus ride led by Richard Brook, Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Architecture School. It’s jointly organized by the NW Group of the Twentieth Century Society and the Manchester Modernist Society. Booking essential – please click here to reserve your place. Saturday, March

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March 2012: Manchester’s post-war chapels, churches & chaplaincies

This is a combined walk+bus ride led by Richard Brook, Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Architecture School. It’s jointly organized by the NW Group of the Twentieth Century Society and the Manchester Modernist Society. Booking essential – please click here to reserve your place. Saturday, March

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William Temple Memorial Church, Wythenshawe, George Gaze Pace, 1963-5 – present day

   George Gaze Pace is one of Britain’s finest post war church architects, and Manchester not has not one but two Pace churches. St Marks in Chadderton is a magnificent building but for originality of design Wythenshawe‘s William Temple Memorial

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William Temple Memorial Church, Wythenshawe, George Gaze Pace, 1963-5 – present day

   George Gaze Pace is one of Britain’s finest post war church architects, and Manchester not has not one but two Pace churches. St Marks in Chadderton is a magnificent building but for originality of design Wythenshawe‘s William Temple Memorial

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Hidden Chapels 1 – Hulme Hall, JRG Seward, (of Cruickshank & Seward), 1968 – present

After december’s special investigations from Mr Rhead about the dastardly disappearance of notable public sculptures right under our very eyes, we decided to bring in the new year with the rediscovery of some hidden gems, right under our very noses!

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Hidden Chapels 1 – Hulme Hall, JRG Seward, (of Cruickshank & Seward), 1968 – present

After december’s special investigations from Mr Rhead about the dastardly disappearance of notable public sculptures right under our very eyes, we decided to bring in the new year with the rediscovery of some hidden gems, right under our very noses!

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Hidden Chapels 2 – St Anselm’s Chapel

H.S. Fairhurst & Sons, 1961 – present There are few buildings of the twentieth century that escape the curious eye of the MMS and their field agents, but occasionally from behind a wall or tucked away in some private realm

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Hidden Chapels 2 – St Anselm’s Chapel

H.S. Fairhurst & Sons, 1961 – present There are few buildings of the twentieth century that escape the curious eye of the MMS and their field agents, but occasionally from behind a wall or tucked away in some private realm

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St Catherine of Sienna, Lowton

Weightman & Bullen  1957 Lowton is near Golborne, Lancashire, in the old South Lancashire coalfield area, off the East Lancs Road a few miles west of Leigh. I guess that the local authority is Warrington Borough Council which is technically now in Cheshire. It seems to

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St Catherine of Sienna, Lowton

Weightman & Bullen  1957 Lowton is near Golborne, Lancashire, in the old South Lancashire coalfield area, off the East Lancs Road a few miles west of Leigh. I guess that the local authority is Warrington Borough Council which is technically now in Cheshire. It seems to