Church of St Paul the Apostle is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. Church.
Church of St Paul the Apostle
- WRENN ID
- grim-screen-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Paul the Apostle, Choppington
- OS grid reference
- NZ 255 839
- Coordinates
- 55.14918, -1.60143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paul the Apostle is a parish church built in 1866. It is constructed of snecked stone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with stone cresting. The church has an unaisled four-bay nave that includes a south porch, a chancel with a canted apse, a south vestry, and a later addition of a north organ chamber, all designed in a 13th-century style.
The nave is supported by stepped angle buttresses and has a sill string. The south porch features boarded double doors set under a pointed arch, complete with a hoodmould and a slit window above, all within a steeply-pitched coped gable supported by moulded kneelers. Each return of the porch has a circular window. The north and south walls of the nave are adorned with two-light windows that have pierced circles in their spandrels. At the west end, there are two tall lancet windows flanking a buttress that supports a bellcote, which has a pointed arch and a ring-cross finial. The chancel apse contains small lancet windows and has walls that are battered out, along with a sill string and ornamental ridge cresting. The vestry features a boarded door, single-light windows, and a tall truncated stack.
Inside, the church is plastered and features unmoulded pointed arches leading to the chancel and organ chamber. There is a cusped aumbry and sedile in the sanctuary. The roof is a hammer-beam style with arch braces and upper crown posts, supported by iron tie-rods with scrolly brackets beneath each truss. Additionally, there is a panelled reredos that serves as a war memorial.
Local climate
Church of St Paul the Apostle receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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