Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MOOR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386157
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MOOR LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386157
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MOOR LANE
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, MOOR LANE
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 82044 02065
Details
SALFORD
SD80SW MOOR LANE 949-1/2/84 (North side) 22/12/86 Church of St Paul
II
Anglican church. 1851-2. By A Trimen. Alterations following fire in 1987 include re-roofing at lower height, removing original clerestory. Uncoursed rubble with freestone dressings. C20 roof material. W tower and spire, nave with 2 aisles and transepts, chancel. EXTERIOR: 3-stage W tower: tall first stage with diagonal buttresses, and S door with simple hoodmould. Paired lights with stilted arches to bell chamber, divided by pilaster carried on corbel head. Quatrefoil frieze below embattled parapet with corbel table. Corner octagonal stair-turret capped by spirelet. Spire with lucarnes. Geometric tracery to 2 and 3-light aisle windows. S porch with chamfered arched doorway now disused, the present entrance in the E elevation of the porch. Rich geometric tracery to 4-light transept window, and triple window at low level in W wall. Rose window in vestry gable projecting from chancel. Angle buttresses to chancel which has 4-light E window with geometric tracery and hoodmould over. Vestry to N with canted E end. 2-tier geometric-traceried window to N transept. INTERIOR: remodelled after fire damage, but arcade of 4-bays with octagonal piers and semi-octagonal responds survives. Stained glass in E window, undated, but late C19, depicting the conversion of St Paul. Stone-traceried reredos flanked by scenes from the life of St Paul, in mosaic tiled panels. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-: 395).
Listing NGR: SD8204402065
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471581
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969), 395
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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