Church Of St Paulinus

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.