Church Of St Paul

SD 90 NW ROYTON CHURCH STREET 4/48 Church of St. Paul - II Church. 1884-9. By H. Cockburn. Rock-faced stone with slate roof. Nave with clerestory and aisles and north-west steeple. Chancel flanked by side chapel, organ chamber and vestry. Gothic revival. 5-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth, sill band and corbelled eaves at clerestory level. Each bay has a weathered buttress and 2 cusped lancet window openings to the aisle, and two 2-light clerestory windows. All have hoodmoulds. Twin gables to side chapel and organ chamber. Coped gables with kneelers and finials. 5-light east and west windows have geometrical tracery. Imposing tower with arched entrances to north and west has lancet and round openings on the upper stages, two 2-light transomed belfry openings on each face, an octagonal stair turret in one corner and a broach spire with gabled lucarnes. Interior: double-chamfered nave arcade on circular polished granite columns. Scissor-braced nave roof on columnar corbels. Arch-braced chancel roof. Stone font, timber screens and fittings and stained glass (east window by Hardman). Baluster font dated 1754 and Katherine Pickford wall tablet of 1765.

Listing NGR: SD9176207646