Church Of St Paul And Attached Area Wall Railings And Gates

The Church of St Paul, built in 1885/86 by C. Hodgson Fowler, is an Early English style brick church with stone dressings and Westmorland slate roofs. It features a clerestoryed and aisled nave, a north transept, a chancel aisled to the south side, and a northwest tower.

The north face of the five-stage tower has double doors flanked by paired columns and an entablature under a brick triple roll-moulded lancet arch. All openings are lancet-arched. The tower has two openings to the second stage, one to the fourth stage, a blind three-bay arcade on each face of the third stage, and tripartite openings on the fifth stage, with the outer two blocked. It includes a balustraded parapet, angle turrets and a pyramidal roof, with a vice at the southwest angle. The five-bay nave has two windows to each bay of the clerestories and aisles; the clerestory windows have continuous hoodmoulds. A rose window is above a tall tripartite lancet opening on the west side. The transept gable has a rose window over five grouped, blocked openings. The two-bay chancel has windows similar to those of the nave, and the east window consists of five grouped and stepped lights under a single hoodmould.

A vestry and Lady Chapel are attached to the chancel aisle. A ridge lantern with a spirelet and two gabled roof dormers mark the division between the nave and chancel. The base of the tower is open to the nave via the end bay of the north arcade. The two-order arcades have compound piers of four round shafts, and barrel roofs cover the nave and chancel. The chancel arch is of two orders with nook shafts. South aisle windows and the east window contain good late 19th-century stained glass. A three-bay sedilia features Frosterly marble shafts under lancet arches of three orders. The chancel and Lady Chapel each have carved oak reredos dating from approximately 1910. A carved stone octagonal drum pulpit sits on a pedestal with polychrome marble dressings, and an octagonal drum font is made of polychrome marble and alabaster on short shafts.

A low brick area wall with chamfered stone copings and ornamental wrought iron railings and gates surrounds the church on the north, east, and west sides.