St Paul
Widnes, Cheshire
St Paul's was built in 1884, It was designed by Henry Shelmerdine as a traditional redbrick building with stained glass windows, a fine font and features in the chancel.
The church is built in red flecked sandstone, and the nave roof is in ruabon tiles. The northwest porch is set at an angle to the church and the south porch is perpendicular to it. The church is built in Perpendicular style. The north transept is in one bay and includes the organ. The south transept is in three bays and forms a Lady Chapel. The tower has a projecting octagonal staircase on the southeast corner and buttresses on the southeast corner. An inscribed frieze of the Te Deum runs around the tower and below the parapet of the south and east sides of the church.
The furnishings are of oak and were designed by the architects. The font is made of Darley Dale stone. The stained glass in the east window depicts the Ascension and an apocolyptic vision and was designed by Shringley & Hunt.The organ was built by William Hill & Son in 1902 and restored and enlarged between 1936 and 1947 by henry Willis & Sons.
An octagonal wayside pulpit is set into the boundary wall of the church. Also designed by Austin and Paley, it is constructed in red sandstone and approached by six steps. The text 'Go out into the highways and compel them to come in that my house may be filled' is cut into its masonry.
