A place of worship has probably stood on the site of the current Cathedral in Manchester’s Medieval Quarter since Saxon times but its modern history dates from 1421 when the Rector of Manchester petitioned the king to have the parish church Collegiated.
It marked an important point in the history of the town, turning what to then had been a market town into an ecclesiastical town for the North West.
It survived the religious upheavels of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and with Manchester a growing town, was designated a Cathedral in 1847.
During the second World War next to Coventry Cathedral, it suffered the most damage than any other cathedral in the country but would rise from the ashes.
Today it stands at the heart of Manchester’s Medieval Quarter, a short walk from the Renaissance Hotel
Read more about the History of the Cathedral HERE
Did you know that the Cathedral contains a relic that may well date back to the eighth century?