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Built by Act of Parliament, a 1814, galleried Georgian interior with vault supported on cast iron pillars, and Victorian chancel with 1920 rood screen war memorial.

It is a classic Gothic building from the mid 1800s, with a lot of stained glass, a lovely east window, and a very special War Chapel.

Built in 1215, with much rebuilding and refurbishment since, the church became a cathedral in 1847.

Originally a Jacobean church, the oldest in Salford and the only one of its name in the country.

Set in the grounds of Etal Manor, this church designed by William Butterfield was built 1856-58 by Lady Augusta FitzClarence as a burial place for her husband Lord Frederick, one of the illegitimate sons of King William IV.

Dedicated to the mother of the Virgin Mary but paying tribute to its patron, Lady Ann Bland, St Ann's was first consecrated in 1712.

In 1794, the Roman Catholic Church sought to tackle Manchester's deepest troubled area on a site crowded in by intensive poor quality housing on land which had so recently been open meadow and grazing pasture.

St Mary's is one of the cradles of English Christianity, built on the site of a wooden Saxon monastery founded in 654 by St Cedd of LIndisfarne (who is buried here).

A beautiful, resonant and welcoming church.

The village was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Ferlei’ or ‘Fereleia’ which is thought to mean either ‘lea of the ferns’ or ‘the far lea’.