IT is a heaven sent opportunity for a sensitive developer.
Built in a Gothic Revival style and designed by the architect who created Manchester Town Hall, it is passed by thousands of drivers every day.
The United Reformed Church, Besses o' th' Barn, is a Grade II listed building which is at the point where Bury New Road and Bury Old Road meet at Whitefield. The foundation stone was laid in 1864.
Construction, which cost £4,500, was completed in 1865 and it opened originally as Besses Church Congregational before changing its name when congregationalists and the Presbyterian Church of England merged in the 1970s.
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