Church Of St Paul

The Church of St. Paul is a church built between 1874 and 1876, with a tower added in 1897. It was designed by J. M. and H. Taylor and is constructed from rock-faced stone with a slate roof. The church features a nave, aisles, chancel, and a west tower, all in the Gothic Revival style with Decorated details. The aisles, which are four bays long, stop short of the nave at the west and have separate roofs. They include a projecting plinth and a continuous sill band, with each bay featuring a weathered buttress and two 2-light windows. A gabled porch is located on the north side, with the sill band of the aisle continuing as a transom through cusped windows on either side. The chancel is two bays long and is unexpectedly higher than the nave, featuring a bellcote at the junction and a 5-light east window. The tower is an imposing four-stage structure with angled weathered buttresses, a west door, a 4-light west window, paired 2-light belfry openings, and a broach spire set back behind a parapet.

Inside, the church has a double-chamfered nave arcade supported by short circular columns with moulded and enriched capitals. The hammer-beam roof trusses spring from carved corbels, and there is a wide chancel arch on quatrefoil columns. The chancel rail is made of pierced stone and cleverly incorporates the pulpit and lectern, both of which feature coloured stone details. There is a carved reredos and an 18th-century baluster font from a former church. The stained glass includes works by Wrigley and Hunt, and there are timber fittings along with several 18th and 19th-century wall plaques. The church showcases many characteristic details of the architects effectively.