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Buildings |
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| 18th May 1870 | Church Foundation Stone Laid |
| 1st November 1871 | Church Consecrated by Right Reverend Doctor Megee, Lord Bishop of Peterborough |
| 6th June 1877 | Sunday School rooms completed in Noble Street |
| 6th November 1881 | First Stained glass window erected in the Baptistery |
| 13th June 1893 | The vicarage was completed |
| 13th April 1899 | The two new large school rooms at the corner of Nobel Street and Dannett Street were opened |
| 1st August 1903 | Work on the Vestries Building extension commenced |
| 8th November 1909 | Dedication of Saint Silas Mission in Warren Street |
| 1st October 1916 |
Lighting of the church by electricity |
| 1st March 1917 |
Saint Silas Mission closed for the remaining period of the war |
| 3rd February 1921 |
Electric lighting installed in the School rooms |
| 26th February 1929 |
Saint Silas mission closed and sold for £250 |
| 4th February 1933 | Aumbry Built on the South wall of the church |
| August 1936 |
Kelland House bought and renamed Church House in Kirby Road. |
| 1st June 1937 |
Dannett Street School Rooms Sold for £1,500 |
| 3rd January 1939 |
Memorial chapel and chancel damaged by fire restoration work took approximately 18 months |
| 1st March 1945 |
Curates house at 31 Glenfield Road purchased for £875 |
| 10th July 1949 | New railings fitted around the church and new doors fitted |
| 18th September 1961 |
Drains and roof repaired on the south and west ends of the church |
| 20th April 1964 |
Tower re-pointed and re-roofed |
| June 1971 | Restoration work completed to the east and west ends of the Church. |
| January 1974 | Church House rewired at a cost of £600 and then revalued by Snow and Astill at £21,000. |
| April 1980 | Memorial Garden dedicated. |
| April 1982 | PCC received £3,400 from the Leicester City Council for the compulsory purchase of the Church land on the point to enable widening of the Fosse Road. |
| 1984 | The PCC agreed to apply for an Inner Area grant for renovations to Church House. The initial grant was for 100% funding and an allocation of £45,000 was expected. |
| 1986 | The boilers in both Church House and the Church were transferred from oil to gas. |
| September 1987 | Inner Grant was agreed for the restoration of Church House at a cost of £93,000. Work was carried out and completed in that year. |
| April 1993 | A seven year lease was signed between St Paul's Management
Committee and The Leicester Area Health Authority for Care In the Community for office
space upstairs in the Community Centre. Leicester City Challenge agreed to build a Pocket Park between the Church and the Community Centre at a cost of £85,000. |
| 1996 | Fr Sealy retired after 22 years faithful service to the Church and the Community. |
| April 2000 | Dry rot found in the church timbers full extent of the repairs
to cost £250,000 |
| August 2000 |
Plans in place to move into the worship centre in the
community centre |
| December 2000 | Worship centre blessed by the Bishop of Leicester and work is still continuing |
| October 2003 | Church officially declared redundant |