Church/Population Movement

There has been a tendency, slightly reversed in recent times, for the population to move out of city centres and into suburbs, and the churches have moved along with them. Hence, originally, there was St Mary's in Castro (in the Castle), which moved outside the defensive walls of the Castle, but still within the protective city walls, to St Mary's-on-the-Hill. This, too became redundant in its' turn, when the church moved to Handbridge and became St Mary's-without-the-Walls, on-the-hill being reduced in status to a chapel-of-ease,or secondary church.

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