Grate Manchester Cathedral

Grate Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Greater Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the metropolis's parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester town centre. The primary body of the cathedral is in the Perpendicular Gothic style. James Stanley become chargeable for commissioning the overdue-medieval timber fixtures, inclusive of the pulpitum, choir stalls and the nave roof supported with the aid of angels with gilded instruments. The medieval church was substantially refaced, restored and prolonged inside the Victorian period, and once more following bomb harm within the twentieth century.

The cathedral is certainly one of fifteen Grade I listed buildings in Manchester. Construction of the predecessor parish church among the Rivers Irk and Irwell and an historic watercourse crossed by way of the Hanging Bridge began in 1215 in the confines of the Baron's Court beside the manor residence at the website of Manchester Castle. The lords of the manor had been the Grelleys whose coat of palms continues to be associated with the cathedral. The Grelleys acted as stewards, constructing and endowing the first chancery, the St Nicholas Chancery. In 1311, the Grelley estate surpassed via marriage to the de los angeles Warres. In 1349 the St Nicholas Chancery become endowed with the aid of the de Traffords. In 1382 Thomas de l. A. Warre, have become its rector.