A windswept patch of open space wedged between the National Football Museum, Chetham's Library, Victoria Station and the Triangle. Its grass slopes (often...

The Central Library's classical-revival style disguises the fact that it was built only in 1934, since when it has become one of the city's most...

Chetham's is a stunning piece of the 15th century that has survived more or less intact to the present day, the former college's library and surrounding...

Another of the new spaces afforded by the bomb, Exchange Square has rows of amphitheatre seating (with decorative metal bars to spoil the fun of more...

Despite giving the impression of near-medieval antiquity, this glorious building is in fact just over a century old, having first opened in 1900. Among its...

A church building of some description has existed on this site since the first millennium, and the present cathedral has adapted to damage inflicted...

Manchester became the world's first nuclear-free city, in 1980, at the height of world nuclear paranoia. Today, the world may be no safer and the garden...

Manchester Cathedral and this church (built in 1712) have long been the two focal points of surviving old Manchester; indeed, the tower of St Ann's is said...

The aptly named Hidden Gem - founded in 1794 and claimed to be the oldest post-Reformation Catholic church in the country - is approached either from the...

Alfred Waterhouse's building, completed in 1887, remains a proud symbol of the city. Its imposing halls, host to a range of statuary, city council staff and...

Signs of its former splendour remain - the lovely tiled map of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on the entrance walls, the wood-panelled ticket offices...