Church of St Paul, Walkden is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Paul, Walkden
- WRENN ID
- calm-gutter-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden MP: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Paul, Walkden, Manchester Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 738 030
- Coordinates
- 53.52341, -2.39531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Paul in Walkden is a church built in 1848, with a north aisle added between 1881 and 1889, and restored in 1904. Designed by William Young, it features snecked stone construction with a slate and clay tile roof. The church is designed in the Gothic Revival style and includes a nave, clerestory, aisles, and a chancel, along with a south-west tower.
The structure has a 6-bay nave and aisles, characterized by a projecting plinth and plain buttresses. Each bay contains a lancet window in the aisles and quatrefoil windows in the clerestory. The chancel is 2 bays long and features a 3-light window on the east side. The gables are coped and topped with cross finials. The west door is adorned with a nail-head enriched arch, flanked by two 2-light windows with plate tracery above.
The tower is three stages high, with a south door, angled weathered buttresses, clock faces, and 2-light belfry openings. It also has an octagonal corner stair turret and a coped parapet above a corbel table.
Inside, the church has a double-chamfered nave arcade supported by alternating circular and octagonal columns. The hammer-beam roof of the nave springs from carved angelic corbels, while the chancel features a rafter roof. The stone and timber fittings include stalls and a chancel screen dating from around 1910, as well as a mosaic reredos.
Local climate
Church of St Paul, Walkden sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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