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A historic Manchester site has been given a new lease of life as part of a £30m project.

St Gabriel’s Court on Oxford Place, adjacent to Oxford Road , has been transformed into student accommodation with more than 300 bedrooms, after a major development by McLaren Property.

The recently completed 321-bed complex is split over a two-acre site comprising a number of refurbished historical buildings and two new four and five-storey blocks.

Refurbished sites include the 125-year-old St Gabriels Lodge, an old chapel, designed in 1963 by modernist architects Reynolds and Scott, and Woodthorpe Hall, formerly used as a women’s only hall of residence in the 1930s.

St Gabriel’s Lodge and Woodthorpe Hall are now home to studio apartments, while the chapel contains shared student

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