Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. Church.
Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- frozen-span-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Paul, Bradford Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 203 282
- Coordinates
- 53.75033, -1.69311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paul is a Commissioners' Church built in the Lancet style between 1829 and 1830 by Peter Atkinson Jr. A chancel was added in 1892, and the roof was reconstructed in 1870 by Eli Milnes of Bradford. The church is constructed of ashlar stone and features a slate roof with an ashlar parapet. It has a square west tower topped with a slender ribbed octagonal stone spire. The five-bay nave is supported by bold buttresses, and the chancel is short. The tall nave windows are two-light with traceried heads set in deep moulded reveals, while the east window is four-light with geometrical tracery. The hood moulds above the windows have mask-like figure head stops. The three-tier square tower has reducing angle buttresses and a slender west lancet, with a round clock surround in diamond shape above it. Each side of the tower features a single light louvred bell chamber opening, and there is a crenellated parapet on moulded corbel brackets. A doorway is located on the south side of the tower.
Inside, there is a chancel screen made of carved oak from 1921, which includes shields with the names of those who fell in the First World War and a brass plate for those who fell in the Second World War. To the left is the organ, and to the right is the Lady Chapel. The church formerly had a gallery at the rear, and the roof features exposed lattice-type trusses with colonnettes.
Local climate
Church of St Paul receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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