Roman Catholic Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Church.

Roman Catholic Church of St Paul

WRENN ID
vast-hall-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool West Derby MP: Ian Byrne (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
Church
Address
Roman Catholic Church of St Paul, Town Row
OS grid reference
SJ 401 928
Coordinates
53.42922, -2.90183
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Paul is a Catholic church built in 1914 by the architectural firm Pugin and Pugin. It is constructed of red sandstone with a rock-faced finish and features a blue slate roof. The church has a four-bay nave with aisles beneath cross-gables, an octagonal baptistry on the northwest side, and a short tower on the southwest. The chancel is two bays long and has shallow chapels on either side. The design is in the Free Perpendicular style.

The west front includes two pointed entrances flanking a buttress, which has a statue in a niche above. There are two lancet windows and a higher four-light window. The tower features irregularly placed stair windows, three narrow lights, and two four-light bell openings, topped with a cornice and a short spire. The canted chancel has high two-light geometrical windows, while the flanking chapels each have a two-light window on the north and south sides.

Inside, the church has round columns with four shafts and moulded capitals, and the ceilings are adorned with boarded timber rib vaults. There is a west gallery with a narthex below, and a continuous altar rail extends to the chancel and chapels. The altars and reredoses are made of alabaster.

Local climate

Roman Catholic Church of St Paul sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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