Description

WORSLEY MANCHESTER ROAD
SD 70 SW
(north side)
1/42 Church of St. Paul,
- Walkden
G.V. II

Church. 1848 with north aisle of 1881-9 and restoration of
1904. By William Young. Snecked stone with slate and clay
tile roof. Nave, clerestory, aisles and chancel with south-
west tower. Gothic Revival. 6-bay nave and aisles with
projecting plinth and plain buttresses. Each bay has a
lancet aisle window and a quatrefoil clerestory windows. 2-
bay chancel with 3-light east window. Coped gables with
cross finials. West door with nail-head enriched arch and
two 2-light plate-tracery windows above. 3-stage tower with
south door, angled weathered buttresses, clock-faces, 2-
light belfry openings an octagonal corner stair turret and a
coped parapet above a corbel table. Interior: double-
chamfered nave arcade on alternating circular and octagonal
columns. Hammer-beam nave roof springs from carved angelic
corbels. Rafter chancel roof. Stone and timber fittings
include stalls and a chancel screen of c.1910. Mosaic
reredos.

Listing NGR: SD7388903043

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595907

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