Church Of St Paul And Attached Wall, Railings And Gates

The Church of St Paul, together with its attached wall, railings, and gates, is an Anglican church built between 1862 and 1863. It was designed by James Murray of Coventry. The church is constructed of coursed and squared stone, with a slate roof. The building comprises a nave with two aisles, transepts, a north-east tower with a spire, and a chancel with vestries on each side.

The west front features a stilted arched doorway with a foiled lancet window alongside, and a four-light geometrical traceried window above. The aisles have three-light windows with geometrical tracery, and small hexfoil windows to the clerestory. The transepts are gabled, each with three foiled lancets and a rose window. The north-east tower has clasping buttresses and plate tracery to the bell chamber light, with a stilted arched cusped hoodmould. A brooch spire rises from the tower, adorned with pinnacles and lucarnes. An octagonal stair turret adjoins the east wall of the south transept. The chancel east window and the vestries have geometric tracery.

Inside, a four-bay arcade features polished granite shafts on high bases, with foliate capitals to the double-chamfered arches. The western bay is partitioned as an entrance lobby. The chancel arch has short wall shafts of painted stone springing from stiff-leaf corbels. The nave has a scissor-braced roof with double principal trusses linked by quatrefoil panels. Nave furniture is believed to be original. Galleries in the transepts have been partitioned off, but the structure remains visible. The east end has been re-ordered with oak rails and a forward-placed altar and an octagonal pulpit lowered onto its stone base. A wood traceried reredos was installed in 1933. The chancel roof is of kingpost construction with cambered trusses. Stained glass depicting scenes from the life of Christ in a medieval style is found in the east window. West windows are in a similar style and are unsigned; other windows were glazed around 1920 with stylized foliate decoration.

A stone plinth wall with cast-iron scrolled fleur-de-lys railings adjoins the chancel to the north and south, and the north transept to the west, where a cast-iron gate with overarch is present.