Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is a parish church built in 1864 by the architect Salvin, funded by the Duke of Northumberland. It is constructed from snecked sandstone with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, and features a Lakeland slate roof with flat stone gable copings and a stone spire. The church has an aisled nave with porches on the north and south sides, a south tower, and a chancel with a north vestry, all designed in the Early English style. The doors in the second-bay gabled porches have double-chamfered surrounds, and the lancet windows, some paired or grouped under roundels, are stepped at the east end.

The three-stage tower includes a door recessed under a blind trefoil and a painted drip mould, along with a clock and paired shafted belfry openings. It features a mask corbel table and an octagonal spire, with a half-octagonal east stair turret and an enclosed passage on the north side leading to the vestry. The church is adorned with cross finials.

Inside, the church has plaster walls with ashlar dressings. The nave arcades consist of double-chamfered arches, with five bays on the north side and four on the south, supported by round piers with moulded octagonal capitals. The chancel arch is similar, resting on shafted corbels, and there are tower arches leading to the nave choir and south aisle. The roof features alternating tie beams and corbelled arch-braced collars, with stencil decoration on the simpler chancel roof. An octagonal font with dog-tooth ornament is present.

Notably, the glass in the west window commemorates William, the son of William Bourtland Wilkinson, and is dated 1883. The glass in the north aisle includes work by Wailes and Strang in the first bay and Camm and Co. from Smethwick, Birmingham, dated 1901. Historical context includes W.B. Wilkinson of Newcastle, who patented a successful reinforced concrete in 1854.