Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, HALLIWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388059
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, HALLIWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388059
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, HALLIWELL 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, HALLIWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 70476 11097
Details
BOLTON
SD7011SW HALLIWELL ROAD 797-1/9/111 (North side) 26/04/74 Church of St Paul
GV II
Anglican church. 1846-57. James Greenhalgh, architect. Ashlar, with steep slate roof. Nave with western bellcote and shallow chancel. Early English style. EXTERIOR: steep western gable, with advanced and buttressed central section, from which a gabled porch projects. Simply moulded arched doorway, with corbel heads to hoodmould. Clock in raised dated panel above the porch, and paired lancets beneath a single hoodmould above. Similar paired lancets each side of central bay. Bellcote on gable. North and south walls divided into 5 bays by buttresses, with paired lancet windows in each bay. Shallow chancel, with stepped triple lancet east window, and vestries each side. INTERIOR: single span roof over nave with no aisles. Complex queen post trusses with arched braces to tie beam, and traceried panels each side of and between queen posts. Western gallery with foiled panelling. Similar panelling to original pews which retain doors. Choir stalls form part of the same scheme, with openwork enriched tracery to front row and poppy heads at each end. Altar rails and pulpit also form part of the same scheme. Very plain chamfered chancel arch, and plain roof with purlins to chancel. Encaustic floor tiles in chancel, and foiled piscina and sedilia. Wren organ on western gallery. Stained glass in east window as memorial for WW II, and some armorial glass in south-east nave window; the rest plain. (BOE: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).
Listing NGR: SD7047611097
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476057
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
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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