Description

SD 61 SW ADLINGTON RAILWAY ROAD

9/8 Church of St. Paul
13.7.1966
- II

Church, 1883-4, by Thomas D. Barry and Son. Yellow rock-faced stone with
red stone dressings, slate roof with red ridging tiles. Nave with aisles
and transepts; chancel; tower at south east corner. Early English style
(except west window which has Perpendicular tracery with rose tracery in
the head). Battlemented tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses, incorporates
entrance porch and has coupled belfry windows with clock faces. Aisles are
buttressed and have coupled single-light windows with cusped heads; nave
has smaller 2-light windows with similar heads. Transepts have 2 lancets
with cusped bars in the heads, and a cusped oval window above. Interior:
white ashlar walls, 5 bay nave arcade of clustered columns with moulded
capitals supporting 2-centred moulded arches; similar but higher transept
and chancel arches; scissor-braced roof to nave. Stained glass in pre-
Raphaelite style.

Listing NGR: SD6034013509

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Paul's Church, Adlington at Wikipedia
• St Paul's Church, Adlington official website
• Wikidata Q15979469

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  For the Record