St Paul, Ramsbottom, Church of England

The church has/had a graveyard.

It was founded in 1844.

The church of St. Paul is a stone building in the Early English style, erected in 1850 at a cost of £3,400, and consists of chancel, nave, vestry, north aisle, south porch, organ chamber and a tower with spire containing 8 bells, hung in 1879 : the organ was the gift of the late W. Grant esq. : memorial windows have been inserted to the late Viscount Palmerston K.G. d. 18 Oct. 1865, W. Grant esq. of Nuttall, J. Heys esq. and others; and there is also a marble monument to the late J. Kellar esq. of Irwell Mount (1862) : in 1866 an addition to the church. now called the Palmerston aisle, was made at a cost of £985 : there are 600 sittings. The register dates from the year 1847. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £300, in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Manchester alternately, and held since 1893 by the Rev. J. J. Lewis M.A. of Keble College, Oxford.

from Slater's Directory, Lancashire 1895

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