All Saints, Newton Heath

The present benefice is barely twenty years old, and dates from the pastoral reorganisation following the dissolution of the Benefice of St Wilfrid and St Ann, which, ironically, was carved out of the then parish as recently as 1908, and endowed by Rossall School.  Many other daughter churches have come and gone in such a way, typical of the waxing and waning of Empire and Industry, let alone other features of modernity.

Our most recent "daughter" parish, Holy Family, Failsworth, arose out of pastoral re-organisation in the 1960s, and although there is great fluidity socially between the two, we find ourselves in different deaneries and archdeaconries.

Until 1556 Manchester, then a town in the south of the County Palatine of Lancashire, was served by one church which is now the cathedral.   The Warden and Fellows of the then Collegiate Church, and Lords of the Manor of Newton Heath, established the Chapelry of Newton to provide an alternative place of worship for what is now a vast area of Greater Manchester, including areas such as Failsworth, Bradford, Moston and Droylsden.

The present building, built by Act of Parliament, was dedicated by the Lord Bishop of Chester  on All Saints Day 1816 (preceding the creation of the Diocese of Manchester by some 31 years) and replaced the chapel which fell down in 1808, but in whose ruins the Rector continued to preach.

Our Patrons are The Crown and the Dean and Canons of Manchester, by turn.