Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is a parish church dating to 1848, with aisles added in 1869 by J Medland Taylor. The church is constructed of well coursed and squared stone, with slate roofs. It features a west tower with a spire, a nave with a clerestory and two aisles, and a chancel with flanking chapel and vestry.

The four-stage west tower has banded shafts to the archway of the west door. Above the door is a plate-traceried window, and a lancet window is positioned higher. The bell chamber windows are paired and deeply splayed, with a clock between them, surmounted by a brooch spire with lucarnes and quatrefoil panels. The north and south aisles have seven bays, separated by buttresses, with alternately wide and paired lancet windows. The clerestory is divided into bays by shallow buttresses and features deeply splayed round arched windows formed with a chevron moulding that acts as a hoodmould and string course. A plain parapet runs above. To the north is a foiled lancet window to the lady chapel, and a plate-traceried east window is set within a segmental archway with billet moulding in the chancel. A vestry adjoins the south side and was extended in the mid-20th century.

Inside, the nave is very wide and features a queen post roof with tie beams supported by moulded brackets sprung from wall posts. The arcade of seven bays has banded cylindrical columns on high rectangular bases, with ring moulded capitals (some enriched) and steep double chamfered arches; the western-most respond is lower. A large western gallery stands clear of the north and south walls, incorporating pierced trefoiled panelling and a coving to a canopy over a lower screen that separates the western bay of the nave, functioning as a narthex. A simple moulding defines the chancel arch, which has straight responds. Arches lead from the nave to the lady chapel to the north and the vestry to the south. A low chancel screen, made of white marble with grey marble and gold-leaf mosaic inlays, probably dates to the early 20th century. The reredos behind the altar is in a similar style. An octagonal stone and marble pulpit has Perpendicular style traceried panels. The chancel has a steep braced common rafter roof, and a two-bay arcade leads to the lady chapel to the north, with clustered shafts supporting chamfered arches. A wood-panelled altar and reredos are in the lady chapel, likely dating to around 1920, and some late 19th-century stained glass is present.