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== Chapelry History == | == Chapelry History == | ||
Ancoats, a suburb of Manchester Borough, was built as | Ancoats, a suburb of Manchester Borough, was built as a "district church" in the year 1839. Called, All Souls' district church, it was built in the early Norman style, with two turrets, and was erected in Everystreet (east of downtown Manchester and the A665 motorway), Ancoats, by private subscription rather than as a commissioned church. | ||
Manchester, parl. and mun. bor., city, [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/791 '''parish'''], and township, SE. Lancashire, on rivers Irk, Irwell, and Medlock, 31 miles E. of Liverpool and 186 miles NW. of London by rail - par. (including the greater part of the sister town of Salford, separated from Manchester by the Irwell, which is spanned by a series of bridges.<ref>Bartholomew,John, ''[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/791 A Vision of Britain through Time.]'' GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ancoats, in Manchester and Lancashire | Map and description (1887)</ref> | Manchester, parl. and mun. bor., city, [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/791 '''parish'''], and township, SE. Lancashire, on rivers Irk, Irwell, and Medlock, 31 miles E. of Liverpool and 186 miles NW. of London by rail - par. (including the greater part of the sister town of Salford, separated from Manchester by the Irwell, which is spanned by a series of bridges.<ref>Bartholomew,John, ''[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/791 A Vision of Britain through Time.]'' GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ancoats, in Manchester and Lancashire | Map and description (1887)</ref> | ||