St Paul, Widnes
St Paul, Widnes
St Paul’s is a Church of England church on Victoria Square, Widnes, designed by Henry Shelmerdine of Liverpool and consecrated by the Bishop of Liverpool.
- Location
- Widnes, Cheshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Cheshire
- City / town
- Widnes
- Address
- Victoria Square, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 7QU
- Postcode
- WA8 7QU
- Built
- 1883–86
- Consecrated
- 1887
- Architect
- Henry Shelmerdine of Liverpool
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Paul
- Diocese
- Liverpool
- Parish
- St Paul, Widnes
- Style
- Early English Gothic
- Materials
- Grey pressed brick with terracotta ornament
- Opening hours
- St Pauls church building is currently closed due to a major internal reordering. Opening times will be published upon reopening in July 2021.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request. Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets in church
- Website
- https://tnw.church/widnes
Overview
Architects of Greater Manchester, quoting Building News of 28 January 1887, record a cruciform church in the Early English style, faced with grey pressed bricks ornamented with terracotta, built at a cost of £8,000 and seating 750. The same notice states that the church was consecrated on a Tuesday by the Bishop of Liverpool. The practice’s date range for the new build is 1883–86. Pollard and Pevsner (Lancashire: South West) also treat the church, and ascribe a 1901 vicarage to Shelmerdine.
The church is not on the National Heritage List for England. It was built as a daughter church to St Mary, West Bank, during Widnes’s growth as a chemical town, on land given in the will of J. G. Leigh. Local accounts add that a tower and clock were attached in the early twentieth century.