'A wonderful history of an important institution, this will be essential reading for all Mancunians and anyone interested in church history more generally.'
Church Times

1 'A perpetual college': writing the history of Manchester’s Collegiate Church and Cathedral – Jeremy Gregory
2 The pre-collegiate church: origins and early development – Peter Arrowsmith
3 From foundation to Reformation, 1421–1558 – Lucy Wooding
4 Manchester Collegiate Church, 1558–1660 – Ian Atherton
5 The Collegiate Church under the Old Regime, 1660–1829 – Henry Rack
6 From ‘The O’wd Church’ to Manchester Cathedral, 1830–1914 – Arthur Burns
7 The Cathedral, 1914–83 – Matthew Grimley
8 The Cathedral, 1983 to the present – Jeremy Morris
9 Architecture – Clare Hartwell
10 Music – Sarah Boyer
11 Memorials – Terry Wyke
12 Misericords – John Dickinson
13 Stained glass – Marion McClintock
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