Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Church.

Church of St Paul

WRENN ID
south-attic-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds South West and Morley MP: Mark Sewards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1986
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Paul, Whitehall Road, Drighlington
OS grid reference
SE 224 291
Coordinates
53.75847, -1.66052
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

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.

Local climate

Church of St Paul receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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