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Church of St Paul

A Grade II Listed Building in Skelmersdale, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.55 / 53°33'0"N

Longitude: -2.7925 / 2°47'32"W

OS Eastings: 347590

OS Northings: 406226

OS Grid: SD475062

Mapcode National: GBR 8WYD.74

Mapcode Global: WH86R.21J9

Plus Code: 9C5VH625+22

Entry Name: Church of St Paul

Listing Date: 25 June 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1291741

English Heritage Legacy ID: 388969

ID on this website: 101291741

Location: The Parish Church of St Paul, Pennylands, West Lancashire, WN8

County: Lancashire

District: West Lancashire

Electoral Ward/Division: Skelmersdale North

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Skelmersdale

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Skelmersdale St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival

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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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