List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST PAUL
List entry Number: 1288582
Location
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, SCOTFORTH ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Lancashire | Lancaster | District Authority | |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 25-Oct-1985
Date of most recent amendment: 13-Mar-1995
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 383328
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
LANCASTER
SD46SE SCOTFORTH ROAD, Scotforth
1685-1/1/334 (West side)
25/10/85 Church of St Paul
(Formerly Listed as:
SCOTFORTH ROAD, Scotforth
St Paul's Church)
II
Parish church. 1874 and 1891. By Edmund Sharpe, extended
westward by 3 bays by Paley and Austin. Brick, faced
externally with local gritstone with yellow terracotta
detailing. Slate roofs.
PLAN: 5-bay aisled nave with western transept; hipped tower
over the chancel bay flanked by a north vestry; eastern
apsidal sanctuary.
EXTERIOR: in late C12 Transitional style, many details,
especially those of the terracotta, taken from Sharpe's
studies of Yorkshire Cistercian Abbeys.
West facade with wheel window over 2 lancets. 2-storey south
porch, the entrance arch of 3 receding semicircular arches
with 2 round-headed windows above. The nave bays are defined
by pilaster buttresses at both aisle and clerestorey levels. 2
round-headed windows to each aisle bay, 2 roundels to each
clerestorey bay with a prominent carved corbel table above.
The square tower rises awkwardly with 2 small round-headed
windows to the north and south sides. The tall bell-chamber
stage has thin clasping buttresses with nook-shafts to each
corner, and 2 pointed arch openings to each face, filled with
2-light plate tracery. Steep east and west gables to the lead
roof, each with a vesica piscis opening.
Apse with half-conical roof, divided into 3 bays by
buttresses, each bay with a blind arcade of semicircular
arches below a large round-headed window, and a continuous
corbel-table gutter.
INTERIOR: the northern third of the western transept is open
internally to the ridge. The nave arcades are of terracotta,
the round arches of 2 orders springing from columns with
square scalloped capitals. The nave roof trusses are supported
on triple terracotta shafts sitting on corbels within the
arcade spandrels. The chancel and sanctuary arches are also of
2 orders rising from corbelled triple shaft responds. The
chancel bay below the tower has a quadripartite plaster
rib-vault and blind arcading to dado level on the north and
south walls. The apse has a plaster cul-de-four vault and the
windows are set within a continuous wall-arcade.
FITTINGS include pews, which stretch from arcade to arcade
without a central aisle, and a large pink marble font.
Listing NGR: SD4799660026
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National Grid Reference: SD 47996 60026
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