Previously St. Mark's Church, Cheetham Hill
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Previously St. Mark's Church, Cheetham Hill by Tricia Neal as part of the Geograph project.
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Previously St. Mark's Church, Cheetham Hill
Image: © Tricia Neal Taken: 20 Nov 2011
St. Mark's was built in 1794 and demolished in 1998. When submitting these pictures I found the outline of the church still shows on the Geograph map, which was useful as I hadn't known for sure exactly where the church stood. An article pre-dating the building says: "Such was the spiritual destitution of the benighted folks of Cheetham Hill, Crumpsall, and Broughton that between the ancient parish churches of Prestwich and Manchester there was neither a place for the solemnisation of divine worship nor for the interment of the dead." All that is left now is a lot of litter, flattened gravestones and a few battered memorials. This view is taken approaching the area along Copthall Lane, off Cheetham Hill Road.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.51119
Longitude
-2.245751