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Manchester has always been an important centre in north-west England, but during the Industrial Revolution its population exploded as it became the heart of textile manufacturing in the area. The new city was largely unplanned but in time it became the second most important in the country after London, and the massive influx of wealth created a building boom that included religious buildings for its rapidly growing population. Today, Greater Manchester has expanded to include surrounding settlements such as Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Wigan. Churches of Greater Manchester reveals the variety of historic church buildings in the area and their significance, not only from the Victorian period but earlier and later eras too. These unique buildings have held the cultural memory of their locality for centuries. This book includes not only the Anglican buildings of the area but also Roman Catholic and non-denominational chapels that were all vying for congregations in the industrial centres of the north of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This fascinating picture of an important part of the history of Greater Manchester will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this metropolis.

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Rob has a passion for historic church buildings, having originally come to study ecclesiastical history at postgraduate level from a university background in fine art. He specialises in the study of the York's medieval parish churches and their architectural and associated histories. Rob received a merit in the PgDip Parish Church Studies - Heritage, History and Fabric, at the University of York in 2019, having previously completed a BA in the History of Art, also at York in 2016. Rob has worked as a Church Buildings Officer for the Church Buildings Council with the Church of England and most recently in the Church Buildings and Pastoral Reorganisation team at the Anglican Diocese of Leeds. Rob has been a regular guest speaker at the annual PgDip Residential Weekend in York for students at the University of York and runs his own series of annual walking tours of York's parish churches. Rob has contributed his research skills to a variety of interpretation projects and assisted in the delivery of northern heritage tours with the Churches Conservation Trust in 2018.

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