William Gaskell was an English Unitarian minister, charity worker and pioneer in the education of the working class. The husband of novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, he was himself a writer a
William Gaskell on holiday in Scotland (photograph by Rupert Potter, father of Beatrix Potter)
Cross Street Chapel c. 1835
Manchester Mechanics' Institute, Cooper Street (1825)
84 Plymouth Grove, Gaskell's home from 1850
Cross Street Chapel is a Unitarian church in central Manchester, England. It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British Unitari
The modern Cross Street Chapel
Cross Street Chapel interior
Manchester Town Hall from Lloyd St