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Almshouse

Charitable foundation established to provide for the poor.

Ambrose Barlow

English Benedictine monk, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

Ambulatory

General term for a covered walkway, and more specifically for the walkway linking the two chancel aisles behind the high altar.

Amenity society

Organisation tasked with monitoring the planning and development of listed structures.

Anatomy Act 1832

Act of Parliament intended to increase the number or corpses available for dissection by medical students.

Ancient parish

Ancient or ancient ecclesiastical parishes encompassed groups of villages and hamlets and their adjacent lands, over which a clergyman had jurisdiction.

Ancoats Hall

Post-medieval country house built in 1609 in Ancoats, Manchester by Oswald Mosley, a member of the family who were Lords of the Manor of Manchester.

Andrew Bell (engraver)

Scottish engraver and co-founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica

Andrew Knowles & Sons

Andrew Knowles and Sons was a coal mining company that operated on the Manchester Coalfield in and around Clifton, in the historic county of Lancashire, England.

Andro Man

Elderly Scottish folk healer executed for witchcraft in January 1598.