Coming soon two anniversaries ............. 500 years on

This year will mark the 500th anniversary of the building of St Clements Chapel and the row of buildings which is now the Horse & Jockey. The chapel was built by the Barlow family and was a simple wattle and daub construction on the site of the later church in the parish graveyard by the green. The building which now contains the Horse & Jockey can be dated to the early 16th century and part of the original wattle and daub wall was recently uncovered.
Picture; from the collection of Tony Walker, based on a drawing from Booker’s History of the Chapels of Didsbury and Chorlton published in 1857