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
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