Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MANCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163015
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MANCHESTER ROAD
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- 2000-08-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/00116/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163015
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MANCHESTER 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, MANCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71862 03895
Details
WORSLEY MANCHESTER ROAD SD 70 SW (south side) 1/44 Church of St. Paul (formerly listed 29/7/66 under Peel Lane) G.V. II
Church. 1874-6 with tower added in 1897. By J. M.and H. Taylor. Rock-faced stone with slate roof. Nave, aisles, chancel and west tower. Gothic Revival with Decorated details. 4-bay aisles stop short of the nave at the west and are roofed separately. They have a projecting plinth and a continuous sill band. Each bay has a weathered buttress and two 2-light windows. Gabled porch to north, the sill band of the aisle continuing as a transom through cusped windows on either side. The 2-bay chancel is unexpectedly higher than the nave-and has a bellcote at the junction and a 5-light east window. Imposing 4-stage tower with angled weathered buttresses, west door, 4-light west window, paired 2-light belfry openings and a broach spire set back behind a parapet. Interior: double-chamfered nave arcade on short circular columns with moulded and enriched capitals. Hammer- beam roof trusses spring from carved corbels. Wide chancel arch on quatrefoil columns. Pierced stone chancel rail which cleverly incorporates the pulpit and lectern both of which use coloured stone details. Carved reredos. C18 baluster font from former church. Stained glass some by Wrigley and Hunt. Timber fittings. Several C18 and C19 wall plaques. The church incorporates many of the architects' characteristic details to good effect.
Listing NGR: SD7186203895
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212002
- 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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