Church Of St Paul

SALFORD

SD80SW MOOR LANE 949-1/2/84 (North side) 22/12/86 Church of St Paul

II

Anglican church. 1851-2. By A Trimen. Alterations following fire in 1987 include re-roofing at lower height, removing original clerestory. Uncoursed rubble with freestone dressings. C20 roof material. W tower and spire, nave with 2 aisles and transepts, chancel. EXTERIOR: 3-stage W tower: tall first stage with diagonal buttresses, and S door with simple hoodmould. Paired lights with stilted arches to bell chamber, divided by pilaster carried on corbel head. Quatrefoil frieze below embattled parapet with corbel table. Corner octagonal stair-turret capped by spirelet. Spire with lucarnes. Geometric tracery to 2 and 3-light aisle windows. S porch with chamfered arched doorway now disused, the present entrance in the E elevation of the porch. Rich geometric tracery to 4-light transept window, and triple window at low level in W wall. Rose window in vestry gable projecting from chancel. Angle buttresses to chancel which has 4-light E window with geometric tracery and hoodmould over. Vestry to N with canted E end. 2-tier geometric-traceried window to N transept. INTERIOR: remodelled after fire damage, but arcade of 4-bays with octagonal piers and semi-octagonal responds survives. Stained glass in E window, undated, but late C19, depicting the conversion of St Paul. Stone-traceried reredos flanked by scenes from the life of St Paul, in mosaic tiled panels. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-: 395).

Listing NGR: SD8204402065