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Absalom Drive, MANCHESTER, M8 9EQ

Looking across Cheetham Hill Road at the junction with Heath Street and Woodlands Road.

At the junction with Squire Road (obviously!).

Postbox No. M8 647. See Image] for context.

Showing position of Postbox No. M8 647. See Image] for postbox.

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.

I can't work out what this is. It lies between Copthall Lane and Grangeforth Road. The wall on the right is the boundary of the old graveyard. In the distance, the new houses are on St. Helier's Drive. It is an area of stones like cobbles, with two circular depressions which might once have been flower-beds. These railings seem to serve no purpose. I wonder if it might be the site of some historical building, but there is no plaque near by to explain it.

St. Mark's was built in 1794 and demolished in 1998. 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 there today is this sorry array of flattened gravestones, and a few memorials.

The Grade II listed building https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1197785?section=official-list-entry on Cheetham Hill Road is in a sorry state of repair. It dates from 1909-11 and is by the City Architect Henry Price. The building itself is constructed of red brick and white limestone with dressings of the same in an Edwardian Baroque style. It also comprises three wide symmetrical bays embracing a central entrance lobby with projected porch. The roof is partly glazed with the main feature being a byzantine dome. The Library stock was moved in July 1974 to new accommodation in the Abraham Moss Centre. After serving as the Manchester Black Resource Centre, the building has been empty and unused since 2008. https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/buildings/crumpsall-district-library-cheetham-hill-road-cheetham-hill It was sold at auction in 2015 for more than half a million pounds https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/crumpsall-cheetham-hill-library-sold-8873858 but little seems to have happened to it since then.