Church of St Paulinus is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1985. Church.
Church of St Paulinus
- WRENN ID
- brooding-bastion-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Paulinus, Cemetery Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 237 212
- Coordinates
- 53.68749, -1.64131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paulinus is a Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church built in 1871 by Edward Welby Pugin. It is constructed of pitched-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building is tall and slender, situated on a steeply sloping site, with a 9-bay nave and a 3-bay chancel that includes a 3-bay porch on the right. The bays are distinguished by slender buttresses, and the nave and apse have paired lancets with cusped heads and a 6-foil above. The chancel features single lancets with simple tracery. On the very tall south side, there is a lean-to aisle with lancets and additional lancets in the clerestorey. To the left, a small projecting baptistry bay contains an 8-foiled rose window.
Inside, there is an arcade on the south side with 6 bays and very large square bases for the columns. A gallery at the rear is adorned with an elegant carved oak screen below. The chancel arch is supported by small colonnette responds at a high level, featuring a heavily foliated capital and corbel. In the baptistry, there is a well carved Madonna and Christ in plaster. The nave also contains 14 stations of the cross.
Local climate
Church of St Paulinus receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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