Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, SCOTFORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288582
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, SCOTFORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288582
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, SCOTFORTH 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, SCOTFORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47996 60026
Details
LANCASTER
SD46SE SCOTFORTH ROAD, Scotforth 1685-1/1/334 (West side) 25/10/85 Church of St Paul (Formerly Listed as: SCOTFORTH ROAD, Scotforth St Paul's Church)
II
Parish church. 1874 and 1891. By Edmund Sharpe, extended westward by 3 bays by Paley and Austin. Brick, faced externally with local gritstone with yellow terracotta detailing. Slate roofs. PLAN: 5-bay aisled nave with western transept; hipped tower over the chancel bay flanked by a north vestry; eastern apsidal sanctuary. EXTERIOR: in late C12 Transitional style, many details, especially those of the terracotta, taken from Sharpe's studies of Yorkshire Cistercian Abbeys. West facade with wheel window over 2 lancets. 2-storey south porch, the entrance arch of 3 receding semicircular arches with 2 round-headed windows above. The nave bays are defined by pilaster buttresses at both aisle and clerestorey levels. 2 round-headed windows to each aisle bay, 2 roundels to each clerestorey bay with a prominent carved corbel table above. The square tower rises awkwardly with 2 small round-headed windows to the north and south sides. The tall bell-chamber stage has thin clasping buttresses with nook-shafts to each corner, and 2 pointed arch openings to each face, filled with 2-light plate tracery. Steep east and west gables to the lead roof, each with a vesica piscis opening. Apse with half-conical roof, divided into 3 bays by buttresses, each bay with a blind arcade of semicircular arches below a large round-headed window, and a continuous corbel-table gutter. INTERIOR: the northern third of the western transept is open internally to the ridge. The nave arcades are of terracotta, the round arches of 2 orders springing from columns with square scalloped capitals. The nave roof trusses are supported on triple terracotta shafts sitting on corbels within the arcade spandrels. The chancel and sanctuary arches are also of 2 orders rising from corbelled triple shaft responds. The chancel bay below the tower has a quadripartite plaster rib-vault and blind arcading to dado level on the north and south walls. The apse has a plaster cul-de-four vault and the windows are set within a continuous wall-arcade. FITTINGS include pews, which stretch from arcade to arcade without a central aisle, and a large pink marble font.
Listing NGR: SD4799660026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383328
- 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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