Church Of St Paul

The Church of St. Paul is a Commissioners' church built between 1823 and 1825 by John Oates of Halifax. It is constructed of ashlar with a Welsh slate roof and is designed in the Perpendicular style. The church features a five-bay nave and aisle under one roof, a small chancel, and a west tower. The tall, three-stage square west tower has a west door beneath a deep square hoodmould and a three-light west window. The second stage contains two-light windows, while the bell-chamber has six-light transomed and traceried openings with an attached clock face. The tower is topped with a pierced crenellated parapet and tall crocketed corner pinnacles. Former two-storey porches on the north and south sides of the tower now have their entrances partly blocked to form windows. The buttressed aisles are adorned with tall, six-light, mullioned and transomed windows featuring cusped lights and intersecting tracery, along with crenellated parapets. The lower single-bay chancel has a large 14-light transomed east window with Perpendicular tracery, above which is an elaborately detailed square plaque with a shield, helm, and crest. The chancel also has octagonal corner towers and single-storey porches on each side, all with crenellated parapets.

Inside, the church has a five-bay arcade on octagonal piers. The roof is compartmental with plastered timber ribs and small bosses. North and south galleries, added in 1875, have panelled and traceried fronts. The west gallery has been renewed and features a screen below to create a separate, full-width hall at the rear. An elaborate and finely-carved stone pulpit, dating from around 1876-1880, has a central pedestal with figures in niches and supports a wooden, panelled, and traceried upper part. There is an elegant carved stone open stair and an octagonal marble font with traceried panels. The east window, created by F. Barnett of York between 1858 and 1860, is partly obscured by a later panelled reredos, and there is later 19th-century commemorative glass in the aisles.