Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed church built between 1868 and 1870 by architect John Douglas, with a south aisle and possibly a transept added in 1909 by Douglas and Minshull. It is constructed from coursed rock-faced yellow sandstone and features graded green Westmorland slate roofs. The church has a nave without a tower, topped by a slate west spire, and a catslide roof of shallower pitch over the south aisle. It includes transepts and an apsidal chancel, with paired lancets and very simple plate tracery. The steep roofs, along with the splay-footed octagonal spire that appears to float above two large bell-louvres at its base, create a striking architectural feature.

Inside, the nave consists of five bays, supported by a beam on octagonal stone piers that carries a simply-framed aisle roof. The nave roof is wide and arch-braced, with corbelled piers supporting the nave and chancel arches, which are very simple in design. The transept arches are chamfered and unmoulded. The chancel roof is lofty, lacking principal rafters but featuring hammer-posts to common rafters, and there are deeply splayed embrasures. The church also has glass in the porch, chancel, and south transept, contributing to a satisfying interior.