St Paul's Church is in Railway Road, Adlington,

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, England. It is an active Anglican

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in the deanery of Chorley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the

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. The church is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade II

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. It is registered as a parish of the Society under the patronage of St Wilfrid and St Hilda.

History

St Paul's was built in 1883–84 and designed by T. D. Barry and Sons, at a cost of £8,000 (£ in ). The tower was added following the First World War as a memorial to those who lost their lives.

Architecture

Exterior

The church is in Gothic Revival style, incorporating Early English and Decorated features. It is constructed in yellow stone with red stone dressings; the roof is of Welsh slate, with a crest of red tiles. The plan consists of a five- bay

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with a clerestory, north and south

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s, north and south

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s, and a

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. At the southeast corner is a three-stage tower, containing an entrance porch in the bottom stage. The tower is supported by angle

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es, it has paired bell openings and clock faces in the top stage, and a

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. There were plans to have a tall spire, but this was never built. Along the sides of the aisles are single-light windows, with two-light windows in the clerestory. In the north and south walls of the transepts are two lancet windows with an oval window above.

Interior

Inside the church are five-bay arcades carried on clustered

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with moulded capitals and moulded arches. The transept and chancel arches are higher but similar. The roof of the nave is scissor-braced. In the north transept are stained glass windows by Morris & Co. dated 1895 and 1897, and in the south aisle are two windows of 1953 by A. F. Erridge. There is a

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of eight bells, all cast by

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; one dates from 1932, one from 1933, and the rest from 1934.

References

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History

Architecture

Exterior

Interior

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