GARDENS at historic Gorton Monastery have been given a revamp by college students. Trainees in construction and specialist 'mason paviour' paving techniques at MANCAT were joined by young people ...

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 ...

Work on a new £3m million wing for Gorton Monastery is to begin next month. It is hoped the new eco-friendly front wing will be complete by the end of this year, allowing The Monastery of St ...

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. It was home to a ...

Gorton Monastery has been dubbed Manchester’s Taj Mahal. It's been part of Margaret Morrow’s life for a long time and she puts the case for the Pugin masterpiece to be acknowledge as the city ...

EVENTS venue Gorton Monastery is celebrating its strongest ever year, as sales increased 65% and it made a profit for the first time. Despite increased competition from new event spaces, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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’s chairman honoured by Bolton University . Paul Griffiths DL, Chairman of The Monastery of St Francis & Gorton Trust, and last year’s High Sheriff of Greater Manchester, will be ...