Church Of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1973. Parish church.

Church Of St Paul

WRENN ID
former-mortar-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Country
England
Date first listed
25 June 1973
Type
Parish church
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SKELMERSDALE

SD40NE CHURCH ROAD 783-1/1/6 (West side) 25/06/73 Church of St Paul

II

Parish church. Rebuilt 1903-4. By Austin and Paley. Sandstone rubble brought to courses, with ashlar dressings, red tile roof. Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style. Nave with west baptistery and north and south aisles, chancel with north tower (uncompleted) and south vestry. The 5-bay nave has a clerestory of depressed-arched 3-light windows which have cavetto surrounds and rounded tracery, the aisles have square-headed 3-light windows with similar tracery, and the west end has buttresses flanking a canted baptistry and an arched 4-light west window. The uncompleted north tower has a pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: 5-bay aisle arcades of octagonal columns and 2-centred arches with 2 orders of hollow chamfer; large chancel arch with shafts and similar moulding; carved raised lettering (Latin, in Gothic script) forming a continuous impost band to the clerestory windows; roof trusses with queen struts to the collars and kingposts above.

Listing NGR: SD4759006226

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