Cross Street Chapel Chapelyard
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Cross Street Chapel Chapelyard

Manchester, Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England

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    Coordinates: 53.48170, -2.24443
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Cross Street Chapel opened in 1694 and although early burial registers have been lost, probably had a graveyard from the outset and this continued in use until it was closed under the Burial Acts of the mid-1850s. The chapel survived until 1940 when it was destroyed in the blitz. A new chapel was built on the old foundations and opened in 1959 but this was demolished in the 1990s when the present building was erected. The new building occupied the whole of the chapel grounds and the human remains that lay there were removed to Southern Cemetery. This work was, unfortunately, not undertaken under archaeological supervision, so there is little information about those buried. However, not all of the remains were removed at that time. Between 2014-15, excavations by CFA Archaeology uncovered another 250+ human remains and 17,679 fragments of bone, which were also removed to Southern Cemetery. (John Marsden: The Manchester Genealogist Vol 54 Issue 1, 2018)
Cross Street Chapel opened in 1694 and although early burial registers have been lost, probably had a graveyard from the outset and this continued in use until it was closed under the Burial Acts of the mid-1850s. The chapel survived until 1940 when it was destroyed in the blitz. A new chapel was built on the old foundations and opened in 1959 but this was demolished in the 1990s when the present building was erected. The new building occupied the whole of the chapel grounds and the human remains that lay there were removed to Southern Cemetery. This work was, unfortunately, not undertaken under archaeological supervision, so there is little information about those buried. However, not all of the remains were removed at that time. Between 2014-15, excavations by CFA Archaeology uncovered another 250+ human remains and 17,679 fragments of bone, which were also removed to Southern Cemetery. (John Marsden: The Manchester Genealogist Vol 54 Issue 1, 2018)

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