The Memorial Hall catches the eye with its red brick and sandstone facade, featuring ornate carved stone tracery around the windows that gives the building the appearance of a Venetian palace transported to Manchester. Designed by architect Thomas Worthington and completed in eighteen sixty-six, the structure stands at the corner of Albert Square and Southmill Street. It was built as a center for dissenting religious groups to commemorate the two thousand clergy who were forced from their posts by the Act of Uniformity in sixteen sixty-two.
The Memorial Hall
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