Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1969. Church.
Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- carved-steeple-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1969
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Paul, Main Street, North Sunderland
- OS grid reference
- NU 212 314
- Coordinates
- 55.57628, -1.66528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paul is a parish church built in 1834 by Anthony Salvin. It is constructed from ashlar stone and features a Welsh slate roof. The church has a nave with a bellcote and an apsidal chancel, designed in the Romanesque style. The west door is adorned with columns that have cushion capitals and a multi-moulded arch. There are one-light windows on either side of the door, along with a string course that rises above the door and windows. Above the door, there is a round-headed window flanked by trapezoidal recesses with colonettes on the sides. The nave consists of four bays, each with one-light round-headed windows and a string course that rises over each window, with buttresses located between each bay. The chancel features a priest's door with a roll-moulded arch and cushion capitals, similar windows, and a corbel table. It has a gabled roof and a gabled double bellcote with roll-moulded arches and cushion capitals. Inside, the nave has a canted, plastered barrel-vaulted ceiling, while the chancel has a round barrel-vaulted ceiling. There is also a screen and an elaborate octagonal pulpit from 1915, which includes twisted Ionic colonettes and figures of saints in niches.
Local climate
Church of St Paul receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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