St Barnabas, Openshaw
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St Barnabas, Openshaw
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 28 Sep 2016
The original church of St Barnabas in Openshaw dated from 1837. The present church was built in 1961 to replace the original structure which had to be demolished. Constructed of brick, the church has a rectangular nave with short transepts beneath a hipped gull-wing roof. It closed in 2014 when the congregation joined with the Church of the Resurrection http://www.resurrectionstbarnabas.org.uk/about-us/history/ elsewhere in the parish. The burial ground was conveyed to Manchester City Council in 1981. The closed churchyard is now maintained by the local authority as a public open space and some 19th and early 20th century headstones remain in situ.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.474353
Longitude
-2.187383