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Christ Church, Acton Square, Salford – by Tom Brown

The first stone of Christ Church was laid on 29 April 1830, though the church was officially founded on 28 May 1830. It was consecrated in the following year on 4 November 1831. In 1847, the building was enlarged. The last service to be held in the church was the Harvest Thanksgiving Service on 30th September 1956. On 17th September 1957, a faculty for demolition was granted in the Manchester Diocesan Consistory Court and the actual work was done in the Summer of 1958. The last words of the Christ Church saga belong to Bishop Warman when he preached the centenary sermon. “When during the last few days I was reading a history of the Church of England, written by a churchman who had not very much sympathy with the Evangelical Movement, I came across this passage: “Evangelicalism touched the great towns of the North,’ invaded them; captured their pulpits and, perhaps chiefest among them, Hugh Stowell conquered Manchester”.

The giclee print is from the original artwork of ‘Christ Church, Acton Square, Salford’ by Tom Brown. Prints have been registered with the Fine Art Trade Guild as ArtSure approved, open-editions. The print is supplied with a mount to fit a 40x50cm frame