Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is a parish church located in Skelmersdale, rebuilt between 1903 and 1904 by the architectural firm Austin and Paley. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a red tile roof, showcasing the Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style. The church consists of a nave with a west baptistery and north and south aisles, as well as a chancel that includes an uncompleted north tower and a south vestry.

The nave has five bays and a clerestory adorned with depressed-arched three-light windows that have cavetto surrounds and rounded tracery. The aisles contain square-headed three-light windows with similar tracery. The west end is characterized by buttresses that flank a canted baptistry and an arched four-light west window. The uncompleted north tower is topped with a pyramidal roof.

Inside, the church features five-bay aisle arcades supported by octagonal columns and two-centred arches with two orders of hollow chamfer. The large chancel arch is detailed with shafts and similar moulding. There is carved raised lettering in Latin, rendered in Gothic script, forming a continuous impost band around the clerestory windows. The roof trusses incorporate queen struts to the collars and kingposts above.