Church Of St Paulinus

DEWSBURY CB CEMETERY ROAD SE 22 SW (Dewsbury)

2/19 Church of St Paulinus

In the description the sentence:

"In the baptistry is a well carved Madonna and Christ in marble."

should be amended to read:

"In the baptistry is a well carved Madonna and Christ in plaster."

DEWSBURY CB CEMETERY ROAD SE 22 SW (Dewsbury)

2/19 Church of St. Paulinus

G.V. II

Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church. 1871 by Edward Welby Pugin. Pitched-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. A tall slender building on a steeply sloping site. 9-bay nave. 3-bay chancel with 3-bay porch to right. Bays are marked by slender buttresses. Paired lancets with cusped heads and 6-foil over, to nave and apse. Single lancets with simple tracery to chancel. On the very tall south side is lean-to aisle with lancets, and lancets to the clerestorey. To the left is a small projecting baptistry bay with an 8-foiled rose window.

Interior: Arcade to south of 6 bays. Very large square bases to the columns. Gallery to rear with elegant carved oak screen below. Chancel arch on small colonnette responds, at high level, with heavily foliated capital and corbel. In the baptistry is a well carved Madonna and Christ in marble. 14 stations of the cross in the nave.

Listing NGR: SE2378621285