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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
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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