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Gable Court, MANCHESTER, M34 2RR

In the foreground is a stone mounting block which was once used to help people mount and dismount from their horses when they came to worship.

A nice display of flowers in the churchyard. In the foreground is a stone mounting block which was once used to help people mount and dismount from their horses when they came to worship. In the background is the Chapel House public house.

Most of the gravestones at St Lawrence's Church are well worn and difficult to read. This one appears to be in remembrance of William Whitehead who died in 1896 (?), also Peter Whitehead (died 1882 aged 70 years) and two others who died in the 1940s.

The entrance from Market Street. The path is made up of flattened gravestones. Most are so worn as to be barely readable.

Viewed from Market Street.

Painting on the south wall of the nave in Denton St. Lawrence.

On the south wall of the nave is a memorial to Richard Gresswell: IN MEMORY OF THE REVEREND RICHARD GRESWELL, BD. FELLOW OF WORCESTER COLLEGE OXFORD. WHO FELL ASLEEP AT OXFORD ON HIS 81ST BIRTHDAY, FRIDAY JULY 22ND 1881 THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY THE RECTOR AND WARDENS OF DENTON OLD CHURCH, IN GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION OF MANY SERVICES RENDERED TO THIS PARISH AND VILLAGE GENERALLY. CHIEFLY THROUGH HIS INSTRUMENTALITY, THE RECTORY HOUSE AND NATIONAL SCHOOLS WERE BUILT AND THIS CHURCH REPAIRED, AND ITS ENLARGEMENT IN 1871 HE COTRIBUTED LIBERALLY. BORN IN DENTON JULY 22ND 1800, AND EDUCATED BY HIS FATHER,FOR 63 YEARS THE CLERGYMAN OF THIS CHURCH,HE WENT TO OXFORD AND ATTAINED A DOUBLE FIRST CLASS, AND A FELLOWSHIP AT WORCESTER COLLEGE,AN EXAMPLE TO OTHERS OF WHAT MAY BE ACHIEVED, BY DILIGENCE AND INDUSTRY, CHARLES JAMES BOWEN, M.A. RECTOR JOHN BENTLEY WARDENS, JOHN TAYLOR JOSEPH HORSFIELD SIDESMEN PETER ROTHWELL 1881.

Stained glass in St Lawrence's.

On the south wall of the nave is a memorial to William Cooke: In Loving Memory of WILLIAM COOKE, WHO AFTER A LONG AND PAINFUL ILLNESS BORNE WITH MUCH PATIENCE ENTERED INTO REST ON NOVEMBER 6TH 1909 IN HIS 56TH YEAR. FROM HIS CHILDHOOD A CONSTANT ATTENDANT, HE WAS FOR SEVEN YEARS A SIDESMAN AND A WARDEN OF THIS CHURCH TO WHICH HE WAS GREATLY ATTACHED. HE WAS ALSO A REGULAR AND ATTENTIVE SCHOLAR, AND, FOR OVER 30 YEARS AN EARNEST AND CONSISTENT TEACHER IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. A DEVOTED SON, BROTHER, HUSBAND AND FATHER; A TRUE FRIEND AND A WILLING AND LIBERAL CONTRIBUTOR TO RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE WORK. HE HAS LEFT MANY TO MOURN HIS LOSS. THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY BY HIS BEREAVED WIFE AND SONS "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord --- Yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours, and there works do follow them" REVELATIONS XIV.13.