St Lawrence's Church, Manchester

Name: St Lawrence's Church
Address: 3 Town Ln, Manchester, M34 6AF, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 161 320 4895

#185 among attractions in Manchester

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St Lawrence's Church in Denton is a timber-framed church and a Grade II* listed building; it is one of only 29 surviving timber framed churches and chapels in England. The chapelry of Denton was established in 1531 with the construction of the chapel of ease, then Roman Catholic in the Diocese of Lichfield and dedicated to St James. ()

Completed: 1532 (492 years ago)Coordinates: 53°27'8"N, 2°6'44"W

Address

3 Town LnTameside (Denton North East)Manchester M34 6AF United Kingdom

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+44 161 320 4895

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St Lawrence's Church – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Crown Point, Reddish Vale, St Anne's Church, Denton.

0.5 miNW
53°27'29"N • 2°7'5"W
Crown Point, Manchester
12 min walk • Shopping, Shopping centre
1.5 miSW
Park
Reddish Vale, Stockport
38 min walk • Reddish Vale is in the Tame Valley close to Reddish, Greater Manchester, England. The centre of the vale is around the bottom of Reddish Vale Road. Reddish Vale Country Park is a country park managed by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
0.5 miSE
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St Anne's Church, Manchester
14 min walk • St Anne's Church in Haughton, Denton, Greater Manchester, England, is a Grade I Listed Building. The foundation stone was laid on the 1st September 1880 and the church was finally completed on the 29th July 1882. The building was designed by J. Medland Taylor and the construction was funded by E.
~1150 ftNW
Town, Area
Denton, Manchester
6 min walk • Denton is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, five miles east of Manchester city centre. Historically part of Lancashire, it had a population of 36,591 at the 2011 Census.
0.5 miSE
Neighbourhood
Haughton, Hyde
14 min walk • Haughton is a township forming the eastern portion of Denton, Tameside in Greater Manchester. The township probably dates from the Anglo-Saxon times, and was first recorded as Halcton or Halghton in the thirteenth century.
1.1 miNW
Nightlife
Audenshaw Reservoirs, Ashton-under-Lyne
30 min walk • The Audenshaw Reservoirs were constructed between 1877 and 1882 by Manchester Corporation. They are located between Audenshaw and Denton, in Greater Manchester, England. Their construction was overseen by John Frederick Bateman. Part of the village of Audenshaw was demolished to make way for the three reservoirs.