Church Of St Paul

The Church of St. Paul, built in 1882, is designed in the Decorated style. It features hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and has pitched slate roofs with projecting rafters. The church has a 4-bay nave with separately pitched aisles on the north and south sides. There is a lean-to porch on the south with an entrance on the west side. The chancel consists of 3 bays and includes chapels on the north and south. A square tower with a saddleback roof is located at the first bay of the north chancel chapel, adjacent to a square stair tower, also with a saddleback roof. The main tower has small paired lancets at each stage, except for the bell chamber, which features large 2-light moulded and cusped openings with colonnettes in the reveals and a central mullion. The aisle and chapel windows are composed of 2 and 3 lights, primarily with curvilinear tracery. The chancel boasts a large 7-light east window and 3-light windows at the basement level.

Inside, there is a 7-bay arcade on both the north and south sides supported by polished grey-granite columns with octagonal bases and moulded capitals. This arcade extends into the chancel, separating it from the chapels, with paired columns at the junction and foliated capitals in the chancel. The chancel steps span the full width of the church. The reredos in the chancel is made of carved stone and features a 2-bay blind arcade on each side. The pews are open-back oak with curved sides, and there is an octagonal grey-marble font on a grey-granite podium, topped with a tall, elaborately carved oak cover that has crocketed pinnacles, spires, and Decorated tracery. An organ is situated under the tower. The nave and aisles have wagon roofs, while the chancel has a wooden vaulted roof. The floor in the pewed areas is made of wooden blocks.