Church of St Paul, Liverpool

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Building information
Church of St Paul, Liverpool
St Paul's Stoneycroft
Town	Liverpool
Country	England
Architect	Giles Gilbert Scott
Construction start date	1913
Completion date	1916
Style	Modern Gothic

Church of St Paul, is located on Derby Lane, Stoneycroft, Liverpool. It was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and was built between 1913 and 1916. Its modern Gothic design shows hints of both Liverpool Cathedral and Bankside Power Station on a much smaller building.

Nikolaus Pevsner's description:

An early work, and oustandingly original and good, as Scott's early churches can be. Pale brick with a mighty central tower crowned by a pyramid roof. The plan consists of three high square groin-vaulted bays separated and framed on the N and S sides (ritually speaking) by short pointed tunnel vaults. They stand on big square internal piers pierced by low passages, the motif of St. Front at Perigueux. This and other churches of that part of France must have inspired the architect, but to the outside his solution is entirely original. The three sets of short tunnel-vaulted bays to S and N appear as transeptal projections, each in its end wall with a group of three very tall lancets under a blank arch and each (of all things) with a half-hipped roof. It all comes off beautifully. To the S between the three projections are tiny doorways in low masonry blocks. It is unfortunate that the colours of the interior are so unsympathetic.