Church Of St Paul

893/0/10120 MANSFIELD ROAD 28-SEP-05 St Paul's Church

GV II Church. 1848-9 by T D Barry and W Raffles Brown, of Liverpool; extended with new south aisle by P H Currey of Derby in 1897 to commemorate the 60th year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Little Eaton coursed rubble stone with Duffield stone dressings; Welsh slate (Bangor Duchesses) roofs. Cruciform plan with nave, chancel, transepts and aisles. Tower in re-entrant angle between chancel and north transept. Decorated style. SOUTH AISLE: 4 bays with one single-light window and two 2-lights with cinquefoil heads under four-centred arches; projecting porch under steep roof, pointed archway of two orders. EAST END, NORTH AND SOUTH TRANSEPTS: 3-light window with ogee heads and foiled circular tracery above, all under pointed arches. Hood mould and label stops to east window; label stops to north window. TOWER: 3 stages with setback buttresses; plain parapet with crocketed pinnacles on corbel course; projecting north porch with pointed arch doorway an inner order with leaf capital to column; single-light window to second stage and two-light window with reticulated tracery to bell stage; stair turret terminating in finial spire on south east corner. SOUTH AISLE: 4 bays; one 3-light and three 4-light ogee windows under square heads. INTERIOR: 4-bay nave roof with scissor braces and struts; arcades on alternating round and octagonal columns with moulded capitals; pointed chancel arch; chancel roof of two bays with scissor braces. East window, 1853 by J J Simpson, flanked by Commandment panels. Stained pine pews with trefoil headed panels; octagonal pulpit with tracery panels; octagonal stone font. This is a good and intact example of an early Victorian church in an ecclesiologically correct style. .