Church Of St Paul

SJ 99 NE STALYBRIDGE HUDDRSFIELD ROAD (south side)

4/150 Church of 27.6.84 St. Paul

G.V. II

Church. 1839 by Tattersall with clerestory and south transept 1872 by Brakespear. Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and fish-scale slate roof. Nave and chancel with transepts, aisles, clerestory and west tower. Aisle: 4 bays, paired lancets with hoodmoulds between slender weathered and gableted buttresses and coped parapet. Clerestory: segmental-triangle windows. The transepts have triple-lancet windows, angled corner buttresses with nook- shafts and corner pinnacles. The chancel has canted corners and a 4-light east window. 3-stage castellated tower with angled buttresses, single-storey north and south abutments, a western roll-moulded, pointed arch door beneath a 2-light window, clock faces in the second stage, 2 lancets to the belfry and corner pinnacles. Interior: nave arcades of chamfered pointed arches under hoodmoulds on collared octagonal piers. Quadripartite vault. Galleries to west end and north aisle. Chamfered roll-moulded chancel arch on compound piers. Pierced andtraceried wooden screens. Hammer-beam chancel roof. Stained glass east window by Wailes.

Listing NGR: SJ9716898716