Church Of St Paul And Attached Wall, Railings And Gates

BOLTON SD7109SW DEANSGATE 797-1/16/79 Church of St Paul and attached wall, 26/04/74 railings and gates II Includes: Church of St Paul and attached wall, railings and gates MOOR LANE. Includes: Church of St Paul and attached wall, railings and gates GARSIDE STREET. Anglican church. 1862-3. James Murray of Coventry, architect. Coursed and squared stone with slate roof. Nave with 2 aisles and transepts, tower with spire at north-east angle, chancel with vestries each side. EXTERIOR: stilted arched west doorway with foiled lancet window alongside, and 4-light geometrical traceried window above. 3 light windows in west end of aisles. 3 bay aisles with 2 light windows with geometrical tracery, and small hexfoiled windows to clerestory. Transepts, with porch in west wall of north transept. Paired gabled transepts, each with 3 foiled lancets and rose window over. North-east tower with clasping buttresses to lower stage, and plate tracery to bell chamber light with stilted arched cusped hoodmould. Pinnacles at angles of brooch spire with lucarnes. Small canted stair turret in north-east angle. Geometric tracery in chancel east window, and in parallel gabled vestry to south. Octagonal stair turret against east wall of south transept. INTERIOR: 4 bay arcade with polished granite shafts on high bases, foliate capitals to double chamfered arches. Western bay partitioned off to form entrance lobby. Chancel arch with short wall shafts of painted stone sprung from stiff-leaf corbels. Scissor braced roof to nave with double principal trusses linked by quatrefoil panels. Nave furniture possibly part of the original ordering of the church. Galleried transepts to each side now partitioned off, but the structure of the galleries still visible. Some re-ordering of east end, with oak rails and altar brought forward, and the oack octagonal pulpit lowered on its stone base. Wood traceried reredos installed in 1933. Kingpost roof with cambered trusses to chancel. Stained glass in east window, scenes from the life of Christ in medieval idiom. West windows in similar style, unsigned. Other windows glazed c1920, with stylized foliate decoration. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: stone plinth wall with cast-iron scrolled fleur-de-lys railings adjoin the chancel to north and south, and also adjoin the north transept to the west, where there is a cast-iron gate with overarch. (Craston C: Saint Paul’s Church, Deansgate, 1863-1980, A History; Bolton Journal, 20 September 1884, Pictorial Bolton Series, XXXI: Bolton). Listing NGR: SD7128309173

Selected Sources

Books and journalsCraston, C, Saint Pauls Church Deansgate 1863-1980 A History’Bolton Journal’ in Pictorial Bolton Series XXXI 20th September, (1884)