Church Of St Paul, Walkden

WORSLEY MANCHESTER ROAD SD 70 SW (north side) 1/42 Church of St. Paul, - Walkden G.V. II

Church. 1848 with north aisle of 1881-9 and restoration of 1904. By William Young. Snecked stone with slate and clay tile roof. Nave, clerestory, aisles and chancel with south- west tower. Gothic Revival. 6-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth and plain buttresses. Each bay has a lancet aisle window and a quatrefoil clerestory windows. 2- bay chancel with 3-light east window. Coped gables with cross finials. West door with nail-head enriched arch and two 2-light plate-tracery windows above. 3-stage tower with south door, angled weathered buttresses, clock-faces, 2- light belfry openings an octagonal corner stair turret and a coped parapet above a corbel table. Interior: double- chamfered nave arcade on alternating circular and octagonal columns. Hammer-beam nave roof springs from carved angelic corbels. Rafter chancel roof. Stone and timber fittings include stalls and a chancel screen of c.1910. Mosaic reredos.

Listing NGR: SD7388903043