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.
