Oldham
Road Goods Station
St. Matthew's, Campsfield,
was designed by Sir Charles Barry the architect responsible for the
Mosley Street Art Gallery and the Athenaeum Club, in Manchester, and
the
Palace of Westminister in London.
It was built in 1822 and stood in what today is known as Castlefield
between the
present Upper and Lower Campsfield Market buildings. The church
actually pre-dated both of the market buildings. In the 1844 OS
map, an extract of which is shown below, you can see that in those days
it was adjacent to a Hay Market.
You can see the church in
the aerial photographs below taken in the 1940s and shown with the
permission of English Heritage.
St. Matthew's
was demolished in 1951 and nothing marks the fact that it was ever
there except
for the St. Matthew's Sunday School building a little further down
Liverpool
Road.
A non-descript
office building occupies the site of St. Matthew's today.
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