page_title: Cross Street Chapel
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Cross Street Chapel / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Cross Street Chapel, Manchester, UK in 1835. Scanned from Shercliff WH. 'Manchester A Short History of its Development' Municipal Information Bureau, Town Hall, Manchester (1960). The date of the original (1835) means that the author's copyright has expired, and it is in the public domain.
context_page_description: Cross Street Chapel is a Unitarian church in central Manchester, England. It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British Unitarians. Its present minister is Cody Coyne.
context_section_description: The Act of Uniformity 1662 imposed state control on religion by regulating the style of worship in the Church of England. However, many clergy rejected the restrictions, and of the 2000 ministers who were ejected from the established church, Henry Newcome established his own congregation that same year. The "Dissenters' Meeting House" was opened in 1694 and holds a special place in the growth of nonconformism within the city.
  In 2012, the chapel became the first place of worship to be granted a civil partnership licence when the law changed in England. During the construction of Manchester Metrolink's second city crossing in the City Zone, 270 bodies from what used to be the chapel's graveyard had to be exhumed and reburied. The work took place from 2014–17.
caption: Cross Street Chapel c.1835
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