Gorton - Landmarks

Landmarks

Gorton is home to Gorton Monastery, a Franciscan, 19th-century High Victorian Gothic Monastery. In recent years this has been renovated and has been secularised: it was previously derelict after the friars moved out. The parish left by the Friars came under the care of the Diocese of Salford. St Francis of Assisi RC Church on Textile Street, Gorton and Sacred Heart Church, Levenshulme Road, Gorton now form part of the RC Parish of Sacred Heart and St. Francis see www.catholicgorton.co.uk Other churches in Gorton which were designed by notable architects include the Brookfield Unitarian Church on Hyde Road, built by Richard Peacock (see "Brookfield Church Memorabilia". http://www.robertsiddall.comlu.com.) and the Mount Olivet Apostolic Church (originally the Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of Mercy and St Thomas of Canterbury) on Mount Road, which was built by Walter Tapper in 1927.

In 2006, Manchester City Council started a multi-million-pound redevelopment of the Gorton District Shopping Centre. The small market and retail area was demolished and work started in late 2007 to construct a brand new market hall and a new Tesco Extra hypermarket on this site. In July 2008, the new Manchester Gorton Market Hall was opened to the public. The construction of the new hypermarket and neighbouring petrol station continued, and in late October 2008 the new Tesco Extra store opened its doors for trading on 27 October 2008. Further retail outlets are to be developed near this site along Hyde Road, such as a Subway sandwich shop and Coral bookmarkers which opened next to the Tesco Extra in 2009.

Gorton is also home to the Greater Manchester Police, Tactical Firearms Unit based at Openshaw Police Station.