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
- vast-loggia-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Paul, Kirkgate
- OS grid reference
- SE 259 231
- Coordinates
- 53.70439, -1.60907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paul is a Commissioners' Church built between 1823 and 1825 by Thomas Taylor. It was altered in 1894 and restored in 1917 after a fire in 1916. The church is constructed of ashlar and features a pitched slate roof with roll top copings. It has a three-tier west tower and a seven-bay buttressed nave, which includes tall two-light windows adorned with Y tracery and hood moulds that have mask-like figure head stops. The small chancel has a four-light east window with intersecting tracery. The projecting three-tier tower is topped with a perforated parapet and tall octagonal pinnacles, and it includes two-light louvred openings in the bell chamber as well as a clock face on three elevations. The main arched entrance is located at the base of the tower on the west side.
Inside, the church has a very plain and light interior, with stained glass only in the east window. The nave windows are leaded, and there is a carved reredos along with a well-carved and panelled organ case situated in the north-east corner.
Local climate
Church of St Paul 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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