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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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