In 1996 it was transferred to the Monastery of St Francis and Gorton Trust who have overseen a 6.5 million redevelopment to turn it into a used and loved community and events building.

Gorton had already suffered from a massive slum clearance programme as the old terraced houses around the Monastery had been flattened. Bit-by-bit the heart had been knocked out of the local ...

Multi-million pound plans have been announced to restore Gorton Monastery in Manchester. It follows a ten year campaign to try and raise enough money to bring the church dubbed Manchester's Taj ...

Gorton Monastery, built in 1872 by the architect Edward Pugin, is widely recognised as a Catholic masterpiece. But its fate looked sealed in the 1970s when, ...

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St Francis & Gorton Monastery in East Manchester has been dubbed Manchester's Taj Mahal and is included on the World Heritage list of 100 most endangered sites. It's been saved by a £6m ...

Gorton Monastery was abandoned by developers 14 years ago and completely vandalised. It has now been restored Gorton Monastery, a redbrick church and priory, stood for 120 years as a proud symbol ...

A statue of Madonna and child is to be returned to Gorton Monastery after it was found for sale in a local antiques shop about 10 years ago. The hand-painted statue was one of the treasures taken from ...

The new £3m Welcome Wing at Gorton Monastery in Gorton, Manchester is now open. Now, community and learning activities take place every day alongside the Monastery’s commercial function as an ...

THE charitable trust running east Manchester's iconic venue, Gorton Monastery, has hailed "another year of progress" as it reported a trading surplus in the year to the end of January.

Gorton Monastery is now the home to one of the biggest collections of antique fabric and wallpaper patterns. It provides inspiration for some of the biggest name in the fashion industry, ...