Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, HOLLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388077
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, HOLLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388077
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, HOLLAND 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, HOLLAND STREET
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 71557 11543
Details
BOLTON
SD71SW HOLLAND STREET 797-1/2/130 (East side) 26/04/74 Church of St Paul (Formerly Listed as: BIRLEY STREET Church of St Paul)
GV II
Parish church. 1848, with aisles added in 1869 by J Medland Taylor. Well coursed and squared stone with slate roofs. PLAN: west tower and spire, nave with clerestory and 2 aisles; chancel with flanking chapel and vestry. EXTERIOR: 4-stage west tower with banded shafts to archway of west door; plate traceried window over the door, and lancet window above. Paired deep-splayed bell chamber lights with clock between them, and brooch spire with lucarnes and quatrefoil panels. Clasping bays distinct from aisles to north and south, with simply moulded doorways. North and south aisles of 7 bays divided by buttresses, with alternately wide and paired lancet windows. Clerestory divided into bays as a series of recessed panels by shallow buttresses, with deep splayed round arched windows with chevron moulding forming hoodmould and string course. Plain parapet above. Foiled lancet window to lady chapel, and plate traceried east window in chancel, set in segmental archway with billet moulding. Vestry to south, extended mid C20. INTERIOR: very wide nave with queen post roof, the tie beam supported by moulded brackets sprung from wall posts. Arcade of 7 bays, with banded cylindrical columns on high rectangular bases, with ring moulded capitals (some enriched) and steep double chamfered arches. Western-most respond is lower. Big western gallery clear of north and south walls, with pierced trefoiled panelling, and coving to canopy over lower screen separating western bay of nave to form narthex. Simple moulding to chancel arch, with straight responds. Arches each side of chancel arch within the nave, leading to lady chapel to north and vestry to south. Low chancel screen on steps, white marble with grey marble and gold-leaf mosaic inlays, probably early C20. Reredos to altar in similar style. Octagonal stone and marble pulpit, with Perpendicular style traceried panels. Steep braced common rafter roof to chancel, and 2-bay arcade leading to lady chapel to north, with clustered shaft carrying chamfered arches.
Wood panelled altar and reredos to lady chapel, probably c1920. Some late C19 stained glass.
Listing NGR: SD7155711543
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476075
- 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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