St Paul's Church is in Railway Road, Adlington, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chorley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of Blackburn.^[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.^[2] It is registered as a parish of the Society under the patronage of St Wilfrid and St Hilda.^[3]

St Paul's was built in 1883–84 and designed by T. D. Barry and Sons, at a cost of £8,000 (£1,050,000 in 2023).^[4][5] The tower was added following the First World War as a memorial to those who lost their lives.^{[citation needed]}

The church is in Gothic Revival style, incorporating Early English and Decorated features.^[5] It is constructed in yellow stone with red stone dressings; the roof is of Welsh slate, with a crest of red tiles. The plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, and a chancel. At the southeast corner is a three-stage tower, containing an entrance porch in the bottom stage. The tower is supported by angle buttresses, it has paired bell openings and clock faces in the top stage, and a battlemented parapet.^[2] There were plans to have a tall spire, but this was never built.^[5] Along the sides of the aisles are single-light windows, with two-light windows in the clerestory. In the north and south walls of the transepts are two lancet windows with an oval window above.^[2]

Inside the church are five-bay arcades carried on clustered piers with moulded capitals and moulded arches. The transept and chancel arches are higher but similar. The roof of the nave is scissor-braced.^[2] In the north transept are stained glass windows by Morris & Co. dated 1895 and 1897, and in the south aisle are two windows of 1953 by A. F. Erridge.^[5] There is a ring of eight bells, all cast by John Taylor & Co; one dates from 1932, one from 1933, and the rest from 1934.^[6]

Rev. T Carpenter 1885 – 1894

Rev. T H Minett 1894 – 1921

Rev. A H Baker 1922 – 1928*

Rev. W R Coombs 1928 – 1937

Rev. C Gamble 1938 – 1944

Rev. A Hodgson 1944 – 1962

Rev. F Haworth 1963 – 1969

Rev. E Carter 1969 – 1975

Rev. R A Andrew 1976 – 1985

Fr. D F C Morgan 1986 – 2011

Fr. D A Arnold 2012 – 2021

Fr. G Buttery 2022 – Date

* Rev. Baker died whilst still in office^[7]

• Listed buildings in Adlington, Lancashire