Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, RAILWAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072623
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, RAILWAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072623
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, RAILWAY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, RAILWAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Adlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 60340 13509
Details
SD 61 SW ADLINGTON RAILWAY ROAD
9/8 Church of St. Paul 13.7.1966 - II
Church, 1883-4, by Thomas D. Barry and Son. Yellow rock-faced stone with red stone dressings, slate roof with red ridging tiles. Nave with aisles and transepts; chancel; tower at south east corner. Early English style (except west window which has Perpendicular tracery with rose tracery in the head). Battlemented tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses, incorporates entrance porch and has coupled belfry windows with clock faces. Aisles are buttressed and have coupled single-light windows with cusped heads; nave has smaller 2-light windows with similar heads. Transepts have 2 lancets with cusped bars in the heads, and a cusped oval window above. Interior: white ashlar walls, 5 bay nave arcade of clustered columns with moulded capitals supporting 2-centred moulded arches; similar but higher transept and chancel arches; scissor-braced roof to nave. Stained glass in pre- Raphaelite style.
Listing NGR: SD6034013509
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357522
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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