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    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital
    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital
    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital
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    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital

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    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital

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      Bell's Cathedrals - Thomas Perkins

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      Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester

      A Short History and Description of the Church and of the

      Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital

      Author: Thomas Perkins

      Release Date: August 24, 2011 [EBook #37194]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BELL'S CATHEDRALS: MANCHESTER ***

      Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Charles Aldarondo, David

      Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL FROM THE SOUTH.

      THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF

      MANCHESTER

      A SHORT HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION

      OF THE CHURCH AND OF THE

      COLLEGIATE BUILDINGS NOW KNOWN AS

      CHETHAM'S HOSPITAL

      BY

      THE REV. THOMAS PERKINS, M.A.

      RECTOR OF TURNWORTH, DORSET

      WITH 43 ILLUSTRATIONS

      LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1901

      PREFACE.

      I have to acknowledge with my sincerest thanks the help I received locally in compiling this little volume.

      The Dean of Manchester was good enough to offer to read the proof-sheets, and has made various suggestions and additions which have done much to improve it. The sheets have also had the benefit of Canon Hicks' revision.

      The photographic illustrations, with the exception of two by Mr. W. H. Bowman of Manchester, were taken by myself, and I have also to thank the Dean for permission to photograph in all parts of the church.

      Mr. Walter T. Browne, Governor of Chetham's Hospital and Library, gave me every facility for examining and photographing the building, and supplied me with much valuable information. He also carefully revised the proof-sheets of the latter portion of the book.

      Mr. J. T. Chapman, of Albert Square, placed his dark-room at my disposal, so that I was able to develop my negatives on the spot, and make second exposures when necessary.

      Lastly, Mr. Thackeray Turner, Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, lent me sundry papers and reports dealing with Chetham's Hospital and Library. The kind assistance thus received has made my task an easy one, and has materially added to the accuracy of the volume.

      THOMAS PERKINS.

      Turnworth, September 1901.

      CONTENTS.

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

      Photo, W. H. Bowman.]

      MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL FROM THE NORTH-EAST.

      Photo, W. H. Bowman.]

      THE CATHEDRAL FROM THE WEST.

      MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL

      CHAPTER I.

      HISTORY OF THE BUILDING.

      In the minds of most Englishmen the name of Manchester calls up the image of a vast city that, with the borough of Salford, which, though municipally distinct, yet is topographically united with it, contains a population of about three quarters of a million of inhabitants. And it is, moreover, generally supposed that Manchester is entirely of modern growth—a collection of mills, and warehouses, and shops; yet, if anyone pauses for a moment to consider, the name itself suggests that the foundation of the city must date back from the time of the Roman occupation of the island. It has been, and not unreasonably, supposed that it was a British stronghold before the soldiers of Agricola took possession of it. Certain it is that it was occupied by Roman troops, and it is said that they made their summer camp near the spot where the building that is the subject of this book now stands, hard by the junction of the little stream of the Irk with the larger river Irwell. In those early days these streams in all probability ran bright and clear through broad meadow lands, and were crossed by bridges of very ancient construction. The remains of one such bridge have long been known to exist, and have on more than one occasion been uncovered.

      The Irk now runs through a tunnel, and discharges its waters into the grimy, sluggish stream of the Irwell, which divides Manchester from Salford, and runs between the Exchange Station of the London and North-Western Railway and the cathedral church of the new diocese created in 1847.

      Many Roman coins, principally those of Nero, Vitellius, Vespasian, Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Constantine, have been found at various times in the course of digging the foundations of houses.

      What befell Manchester when the Romans left Britain we do not know. That Paulinus preached here is highly probable; that Ine, King of the West Saxons, resided here with his Queen Ethelburga about 690 is recorded; that, like many other places not far distant from the seaboard, it was ravaged by the

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