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8 unusual facts about St Ann


John Comer

He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church at St Ann's, Stretford, and educated at the parish school between 1928 and 1939.

Locko Preceptory

The site was moated and came with associated outbuildings, fishponds, and a spring (known as St Ann's Well).

St Ann's Church, Aruba

It is noted that the retable, the communion rail and pulpit won a prize at the first Vatican Council held in Rome in 1870.

St Ann's Church, Manchester

The tower of the church marks the centre of the city; surveyors used it as a platform to measure distances to other locations.

It is a neo-classical building, originally constructed from locally quarried, red Collyhurst sandstone although, due to its soft nature, much of the original stone has since been replaced with sandstone of various colours from Parbold in Lancashire, Hollington in Staffordshire, Darley Dale in Derbyshire and Runcorn in Cheshire.

By 1735, buildings had begun to rise on the south side of Acres Field and King Street and Ridgefield came into being.

St Ann's College

Today it houses 185 tertiary students, both sexes, in single rooms; rooms in the new buildings have airconditioning and ensuites.

St Ann's Hospital

The hospital has until recently been largely a mental health care facility; however, it now also provides outpatient services, which include MRI and ophthalmological services.


Edinburgh Castle, Jamaica

Edinburgh Castle, an estate and now ruined great house in St Ann, was built by Jamaica's earliest recorded serial killer, Lewis Hutchinson.

George Wilson Bridges

In 1823 Bridges became responsible for the neighbouring parish of St Ann.

Green Grotto Caves

The Green Grotto Caves are show caves and a prominent tourist attraction in Discovery Bay, St Ann on the north coast of Jamaica.

Samuel Rousseau

Baptised Samuel Kent Rousseau in St Ann's Church, Blackfriars, London on 20 November 1763, he was the eldest son of Phillip Rousseau, a printer working for William Bowyer, and his wife Susannah.

The Jamaica Regiment

The battalion at Up Park Camp in Kingston has a commitment to assisting the local police in maintaining law and order, while the battalion at Moneague Training Camp in Moneague, St Ann is mainly committed to anti-drug patrols.


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25 St Ann Street

25 St. Ann Street in Manchester, England, is a Victorian bank with attached manager's house constructed in 1848 for Heywood's Bank by J.E.Gregan.

Carcanet Press

It now resides in Cross Street, between where Mrs Gaskell's husband's Unitarian Cross Street Chapel used to stand, and the little graveyard of St Ann's Church where Thomas de Quincey's forebears are buried, and in whose font Thomas de Quincey was himself christened.

Charles Owen Rice

During seven decades of priesthood, Rice was pastor of Pittsburgh congregations including St. Joseph's in Natrona, Pennsylvania, Immaculate Conception in Washington, Pennsylvania, Holy Rosary in Homewood, and St. Ann's in Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania.

David Choby

He was associate pastor at St. Joseph Parish in Madison, administrator of St. Ann Parish in Nashville, and spent three years in residence at Christ the King Parish in Nashville while working at the Diocesan Tribunal.

Discovery Bay, Jamaica

The St. Ann Bauxite company was formerly named Kaiser Jamaica Bauxite Co. (KJBC), and was jointly owned by Kaiser Aluminum and the government of Jamaica.

Easebourne Priory

It was founded before 1238 by the de Bohun family of St. Ann’s Hill in nearby Midhurst, probably John de Bohun who fought at Crecy.

Elliot Griffin Thomas

He served as pastor of St. Ann's Church on St. Croix, pastor of Holy Family Church, Dean of the Diocese and the Vicar General.

John Duryea

Then assigned in 1950, as Catholic chaplain, first at San José State University and in 1961, Stanford University, where he became immensely popular and influential as the pastor of St. Ann's Chapel, Palo Alto.

Kazipet

Kazipet is well known for its professional & convent educational institutions, with one college LIPS - Landmark Institute of Professional Studies and four major convent schools - St. Gabriel's High School, Fatima Girls High School, Bishop Beretta High School, St. Ann's High School, St. Johns high school.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops

In 1980, Bishop Adam Exner asked the Congregation of Christian Brothers to open the high school section and in September 1981, St. Ann's Academy became a high school again.

Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica

Established by Juan de Esquivel, the first Spanish Governor of Jamaica, St Ann's Bay became the third capital established by Spain in the Americas.

St. Ann’s Armenian Catholic Cathedral

In 2002 Cardinal Edward Egan requested that the exarchate surrender the facilities at St. Ann's .

St. Joseph's School, Bhagalpur

Rev Urban Mc Garry, the first Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Bhagalpur started an English Medium Co-Education school in Bhagalpur on 15 November 1982 and invited Sisters of St. Ann of Providence from Secunderabad as a core team to assist him.

Wilfrid J. Turba

Later, he became a lector and choir member of St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church in St. Anna, Wisconsin.