Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1983. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- secret-quoin-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Paul, Church Street, Longridge, PR3 3WA
- OS grid reference
- SD 606 373
- Coordinates
- 53.83134, -2.60001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paul is a church built in 1886-8 by Ewan Christian, with a later west tower added in 1936-7 by A.C.M. Lillie. It is constructed from coursed, squared rock-faced sandstone with sandstone ashlar interior details, and has a slate roof. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a clearstorey, a lower chancel, north and south aisles, north and south porches, a north organ chamber, and a vestry. The tower features angle buttresses and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. Each side of the tower has two lancet bell openings, composed of two chamfered orders. The west wall of the tower contains a moulded doorway, a window of three lights with a two-centred head and cusped tracery above, and three narrow chamfered lancets below the bell openings. The aisle windows have two-centred heads with panel tracery, and the clearstorey windows have flat heads.
Inside, the five-bay nave has octagonal columns supporting pointed arches of two chamfered orders. The chancel arch is moulded and features ½ columns as responds, supported by corbels carved with leaf decoration. A tall west arch opens into the tower. The nave and aisles have an open timber roof; the nave section features arch-braced collars and king posts braced to the principals and the ridge. The east window contains stained glass, believed to be by Kempe and dating before 1899.
Local climate
Church of St Paul sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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