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Didsbury Heritage Open Days 2022

Celebrate the heritage of Didsbury by visiting one of these buildings on Sat. 10th Sept. 2022 (free entry).

Didsbury Library (9am to 7pm) Discover the Carnegie Library which was built in 1915.

The Old Parsonage (2pm to 5pm) Home of Fletcher Moss Alderman, philanthropist, JP and author. The house is now a community space. A rare stained glass sundial window has been installed in the building.

Warburton Street (Shops open 9am to 5pm). Cobbled, quirky shopping street which is the oldest street in Didsbury.

St. Nicholas Church, Burnage (10.30 am to 4pm) This Grade II listed building was the first church designed by architect, Nugent Francis Cachemaille Day and was opened in 1932. 

Didsbury Church of England Primary School (10am to 4pm). A Grade II listed Arts and Crafts building designed by John Swarbrick, a member of the Manchester Society of Architects and modelled on the Palais Stoclet in Brussels, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Christ Church (10am to 4pm) Discover our Alabaster and marble WWI memorial and gain an insight into the consecration and opening of the church. The Church was built in 1881 as a gift to the community from Mr William Roberts of Darleydale and cost £13,000.