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Victoria Park is a suburban area of Manchester, England. Victoria Park lies approximately two miles south of Manchester city centre, between Rusholme and Longsight.
Born in London and based in Manchester, he was known mainly for his restrained and austere Greek-inspired classicism. He also designed a few buildings – mainly churches – in the Gothic style. He planned and designed many of the houses in the exclusive Victoria Park estate.
Saint Chrysostom's Church is the parish church in Victoria Park, Manchester, England. The church is of the Anglo-Catholic tradition, and also has a strong tradition of being inclusive and welcoming. The church's patron saint is Saint John Chrysostom.
The Edgar Wood Centre is a former Church of Christ, Scientist building in Victoria Park, Manchester, England. The church was designed by Edgar Wood in 1903. Nikolaus Pevsner considered it "the only religious building in Lancashire that would be indispensable in a survey of twentieth century church design in all England". [1]
Victoria Park once consisted of a large house, known as Swinton Old Hall, and its surrounding estate. It was acquired by the Borough of Swinton and Pendlebury and opened as a public park in 1897. Around the same time the bandstand was built to commemorate the sixtieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria.
Parks, leisure and the arts Victoria Park Conservation Area. History. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution the growth of Manchester, and in particular the cotton industry, made the...
16th April 1836. The design of the undertaking, now submitted to the public, is the formation of an extensive Park, in the immediate neighbourhood of the great and increasing town of Manchester, and the erection within that Park of an adequate number of first-rate dwelling houses.
