Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309507
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309507
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 91762 07646
Details
SD 90 NW ROYTON CHURCH STREET 4/48 Church of St. Paul - II Church. 1884-9. By H. Cockburn. Rock-faced stone with slate roof. Nave with clerestory and aisles and north-west steeple. Chancel flanked by side chapel, organ chamber and vestry. Gothic revival. 5-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth, sill band and corbelled eaves at clerestory level. Each bay has a weathered buttress and 2 cusped lancet window openings to the aisle, and two 2-light clerestory windows. All have hoodmoulds. Twin gables to side chapel and organ chamber. Coped gables with kneelers and finials. 5-light east and west windows have geometrical tracery. Imposing tower with arched entrances to north and west has lancet and round openings on the upper stages, two 2-light transomed belfry openings on each face, an octagonal stair turret in one corner and a broach spire with gabled lucarnes. Interior: double-chamfered nave arcade on circular polished granite columns. Scissor-braced nave roof on columnar corbels. Arch-braced chancel roof. Stone font, timber screens and fittings and stained glass (east window by Hardman). Baluster font dated 1754 and Katherine Pickford wall tablet of 1765.
Listing NGR: SD9176207646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212452
- 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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