Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul was built between 1876 and 1878 by Swinden Barber of Halifax, with a remodelling of the sanctuary around 1928 by Sir Charles Nicholson, the Diocesan Architect. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings, and a Welsh blue-slate roof. The church is in the Gothic Revival style, predominantly Perpendicular.

The church features a three-stage embattled tower, with each stage set back and incorporating chamfered bands. The tower's first stage has a five-light window with panel tracery; the second, lancets; and the third, four-light belfry openings with cusped lights, with a clock added around 1933. The four-bay nave has a gabled porch in the first bay of the aisle and three-light windows with panel tracery to the aisle. The clerestory has four three-light, chamfered-mullioned windows with cusped lights. The chancel is lower, with two bays continuing the aisle and featuring two-light windows with traceried heads, and a priests' door within a lean-to porch at the junction with the nave. The third bay has a larger three-light window with a traceried head. The east end has a large seven-light window with panel tracery, a hoodmould with carved face stops, and a coped gable surmounted by a cross.

Inside, the nave has pointed-arch arcades supported by octagonal piers with moulded capitals decorated with foliage. A king-post roof features carved bosses to the soffit of the tie-beams and arch-braced intermediate trusses. An Opus sectile mosaic above the chancel arch depicts St Paul set between coconut trees. The chancel has a hammer-beam roof with gilded angels.

Original pews and choir stalls remain, with Perpendicular traceried bench ends. A parclose screen to the south chapel has a two-bay arcade to the chancel. The Caen stone pulpit is carved with relief scenes from St Paul's life, and the elaborate altar features a parchment panelled oak reredos flanked by fluted pilasters and a rail with Jacobean-style finials. Stained glass windows are by Charles Kempe (London), dating from around 1884 to 1902, with some later additions by Powell of Leeds.