A SHUTTERED church is earmarked for conversion into apartments.
The redundant St Anne's church building, beside Tyldesley Road at Hindsford, could soon live again.
St Anne's was consecrated at the start of the 1900s but has lain idle since the end of that century because of dwindling congregations and the need to eradicate dry rot and structural faults.
A spokesman for the Manchester Diocese of the Church of England said: "An application for consent for the building to be converted into flats has been forwarded. Some of the contents would be retained in situ."
St Anne's is a Grade Two listed building.
Rural Dean the Rev Bill Baldwin said: "There are no graves at St Anne's but there are cremated remains in consecrated ground. These ashes would be transferred to St Philip's at Atherton."
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