including being 300 metres closer to the Cathedral in 1999 - along with Sinclair's Oyster Bar - to form Shambles Square. Despite often being referred to as Manchester's oldest pub, The Old ...

The listed inns required various permissions before work could commence, and negotiations with the cathedral were necessary to allow two pubs on its land, the Manchester Evening News reported ...

Manchester Cathedral, which dates back to the 15th century, has been through numerous conflicts and suffered damage both in World War II, as well as from an Irish Republican Army bomb in 1996.