Jeremy Gregory is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Nottingham

• 1 'A perpetual college': writing the history of Manchester’s Collegiate Church and Cathedral – Jeremy Gregory2 The pre-collegiate church: origins and early development – Peter Arrowsmith3 From foundation to Reformation, 1421–1558 – Lucy Wooding4 Manchester Collegiate Church, 1558–1660 – Ian Atherton5 The Collegiate Church under the Old Regime, 1660–1829 – Henry Rack6 From ‘The O’wd Church’ to Manchester Cathedral, 1830–1914 – Arthur Burns7 The Cathedral, 1914–83 – Matthew Grimley8 The Cathedral, 1983 to the present – Jeremy Morris9 Architecture – Clare Hartwell10 Music – Sarah Boyer11 Memorials – Terry Wyke12 Misericords – John Dickinson 13 Stained glass – Marion McClintockIndex

'A wonderful history of an important institution, this will be essential reading for all Mancunians and anyone interested in church history more generally.'Church Times