Description:A view of St. Paul’s Church which stands on St Paul's Square in Burton-upon-Trent. In the background on the right there is a glimpse of the Town Hall clock.
This Grade II* listed Church is a very large Victorian Gothic style cruciform building, designed by the architects James M. Teale and Edmund Beckett Denison (later Lord Grimthorpe). There are later additions by George Frederick Bodley. The church was consecrated on 7 April 1874 by the Bishop of Lichfield, George Augustus Selwyn. The square 123 feet tall central tower is one of the tallest buildings in the town. Several changes were made in the 20th century, mostly paid for by parishioners, which included a western narthex added in 1910 as a memorial to Lord Burton, who died in 1909, and a Calvary erected in the churchyard as a War Memorial in 1920.
There is a local legend regarding the first Lord Burton of the Bass brewing family and a benefactor for St. Paul’s to be built: he had hoped that it would become a Cathedral if Burton was made a city.
Photograph from 'Boots Fine Art Views of Burton', published by Boots Limited in the 1890s.