St. Anne and St. Mary Manchester (Union of Benefices) Act 1890
WHEREAS by virtue and in pursuance of an Act made and passed in the seventh year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne the parish of Manchester in the county palatine of Lancaster being as in the said Act stated of large extent and then very populous and having in it only one church and some chapels of ease which were not large enough to contain the third part of the then inhabitants another church for the commodious performing and hearing of divine service was erected and built within ...