St Ann’s Church
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St Ann’s Church

Historic Grade I listed church on St Ann’s Square, Manchester.
Historic Grade I listed church on St Ann’s Square, Manchester.
Explore Manchester’s creepiest corners this Halloween, when Jonathan Schofield Tours will reveal the city’s ghosts with the most.
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Popular craft bakery, selling freshly baked goods on Manchester’s King Street.
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Bite-size basement dive alternating techno-house and indie nights, this stalwart of the Manchester music scene can be found just off Deansgate, next door to St Ann’s Square.
The ‘biggest bookshop in the North’ right here in Manchester.
Lectures and talks about literature and philosophy.
St Ann’s Square is a quiet little enclave of shops, with Barton’s Arcade set back from it on one side, and St Ann’s Church, which dates back to 1712 and…
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