Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is an Anglican church built between 1846 and 1857, designed by James Greenhalgh. It is constructed of ashlar with a steep slate roof and is an example of the Early English style. The church comprises a nave, a shallow chancel, and a western bellcote, with an advanced and buttressed central section projecting from which a gabled porch extends. The porch doorway has simply moulded arches with corbel heads to the hoodmould. A clock is housed in a raised panel above the porch, flanked by paired lancet windows. Similar paired lancets are found on either side of the central bay. A bellcote sits atop the western gable. The north and south walls are divided into five bays by buttresses, each containing paired lancet windows. To the east, the chancel has a stepped triple lancet window, with vestries on either side.

Inside, the church has a single span roof over the nave, without aisles. The roof features complex queen post trusses with arched braces to the tie beam and traceried panels on each side of and between the queen posts. A western gallery exhibits foiled panelling. The original pews retain doors and are similarly panelled, with matching choir stalls incorporating openwork enriched tracery on the front row and poppy heads at each end. Altar rails and a pulpit are also part of this decorative scheme. The chancel arch is plain, with a plain roof incorporating purlins. An encaustic tiled floor is present in the chancel, alongside a plain piscina and sedilia. A Wren organ is situated on the western gallery. Stained glass, commemorating World War II, is in the east window, and some armorial glass is visible in the south-east nave window, while the remaining windows are plain.