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You are in: Manchester > Places > Manchester places > Gorton Monastery reborn Banquet in Gorton Monastery For a staunch Catholic like Agnes Bracher, it was a crisis of faith. For years, she just ...
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 ...
Entry to the historic Gorton Monastery is going to be free for everyone. It comes after the opening of a new £3m Welcome Wing. Rooms in the friary basement have also been converted into areas for ...
Gorton Monastery, officially known the Church and Friary of St Francis, was built in 1863 and designed by Edward Pugin, whose father Augustus designed the Palace of Westminster.
Gorton Monastery: in 360 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.
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 ...
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 ...
It has now been restored Gorton Monastery, a redbrick church and priory, stood for 120 years as a proud symbol of Manchester's Roman Catholic community.
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.
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 Gorton Monastery housing scheme is being held up as a national example of heritage-led regeneration. The Monastery of St Francis, known as Gorton's "Taj Mahal", was built by Franciscan monks in ...
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