If you click on the links below you can see more images of the building.
| St James' Church circa 1850 | St James' Church 1914 |
St. James' C of E
Church once stood on the corner of George Street and
Charlotte Street not far from the Portico Library.
The church was
consecrated in 1788 but, as with other city centre
churches, falling congregations resulted in St. James
becoming redundant and it closed in 1928.
The aerial image below
dates from May of 1953. The arrow points to the
former location of the church. As you can see
much of the site is vacant. Whether the church
was demolished before the war or as the result of the
Manchester Blitz isn't clear.
Today the corner of
George Street and Charlotte Street is occupied by a
large modern office block called St. James's
House. It was designed by the architectural
practice of Grunton & Grunton and built in 1964.
