Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. A C19 Church. 2 related planning applications.

Church of St Paul

WRENN ID
fallow-attic-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Withington MP: Jeff Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1988
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Paul, Wilmslow Road, M20 2RW
OS grid reference
SJ 849 928
Coordinates
53.43254, -2.22799
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Paul is a church built in 1841 by Hayley and Brown, with a chancel and chapel added in 1864 by J. Lowe. It is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof, designed in a simplified neo-Norman style. The building includes a nave that incorporates a west tower, along with a chancel and chapel.

The three-stage tower has clasping corner pilasters, tall loop-light slots on the second stage, stone bands separating each stage, a corbel table on the second stage, and a plain brick parapet topped with octagonal brick corner pinnacles and stone spierlets. The west doorway is round-headed and flanked by shafts, with paired belfry openings situated above a clock and corner pinnacles.

The six-bay nave features clasping corner pilasters with stone cornices and ogival pyramidal stone caps, very tall and narrow lancets on each side of the west end, and pilastered side walls adorned with a tall round-headed lancet and a corbel table in each bay. The three-bay chancel has round-headed windows.

Inside, the church has a broad aisleless nave with a west gallery and a 20th-century suspended ceiling. The round-headed chancel arch is supported by angel corbels and foliated capitals, with similar decoration at the entrance of the chapel. The chancel roof is open-trussed, and the interior contains some Victorian stained glass, a neo-Perpendicular pulpit, lectern, and chancel stalls, as well as a neo-Gothic font.

Local climate

Church of St Paul sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
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