Cathedral Gardens

Cathedral Gardens is an open space in Manchester city centre, in North West England.

It is bounded by Victoria railway station to the north, Chetham's School of Music to the west, the perimeter of Manchester Cathedral and the Corn Exchange on Fennel Street to the south and Urbis to the east.

Cathedral Gardens is overlooked by Chetham's Library, where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote.

After an international competition, several architects were charged with creating an accessible open space linking St Ann’s Square to the cathedral.

After the completion of the new Marks and Spencer flagship store (then the largest in the world) and the Urbis gallery, Cathedral Gardens was opened to the public.