St Paul's Church, Macclesfield

St Paul’s Church stands on Brook Street in Macclesfield, Cheshire. It is an active Anglican parish church designed by William Hayley and built in 1843–44. The building received a £1,000 grant from the Church Building Commission and cost £5,000 to complete. It is listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. The church belongs to the deanery of Macclesfield, archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and diocese of Chester. The church shows Perpendicular style in its rubble-stone walls and slate roofs. The west tower rises in three stages, topped by a recessed spire with lucarnes and pinnacles. The nave has a clerestory and six-bay aisles on north and south sides, each bay marked by buttresses and two-light windows. The chancel is short, with lancet windows and a four-light east window. Inside, octagonal piers support five-bay arcades and a west gallery. Visitors enter through a wide west doorway under a three-light window. Rose windows sit above doorways at the west ends of the aisles. Between nave and chancel is a screen with an integral pulpit. The chancel’s reredos contains mosaic, and sedilia line both sides. The east window’s stained glass, by Walter J. Pearce in 1921, depicts Suffer the Children. The three-manual organ, built in 1911 by Alex Young and Sons, stands in the west gallery. The painted stencil work on the chancel roof adds colour to the interior.