Church Of St Paul

St Paul's Church is a Grade II listed church built between 1848 and 1849 by architects T D Barry and W Raffles Brown from Liverpool. It was later extended with a new south aisle in 1897 by P H Currey of Derby to celebrate the 60th year of Queen Victoria's reign. The church is constructed from Little Eaton coursed rubble stone with Duffield stone dressings and features roofs made of Bangor Duchesses Welsh slate.

The church has a cruciform plan that includes a nave, chancel, transepts, and aisles, with a tower located in the re-entrant angle between the chancel and the north transept. The design is in the Decorated style. The south aisle consists of four bays, featuring one single-light window and two two-light windows with cinquefoil heads, all under four-centred arches. There is a projecting porch with a steep roof and a pointed archway of two orders.

At the east end and in the north and south transepts, there are three-light windows with ogee heads and foiled circular tracery above, all set under pointed arches. The east window has a hood mould with label stops, and the north window also features label stops. The tower has three stages with setback buttresses and a plain parapet adorned with crocketed pinnacles on a corbel course. A projecting north porch has a pointed arch doorway with an inner order that features a leaf capital on the column. The second stage has a single-light window, while the bell stage has a two-light window with reticulated tracery. A stair turret with a finial spire is located at the southeast corner.

The south aisle includes four bays with one three-light and three four-light ogee windows under square heads. Inside, the nave has a four-bay roof supported by scissor braces and struts. The arcades are made up of alternating round and octagonal columns with moulded capitals, leading to a pointed chancel arch. The chancel roof consists of two bays with scissor braces. The east window, created in 1853 by J J Simpson, is flanked by Commandment panels. The church features stained pine pews with trefoil-headed panels, an octagonal pulpit with tracery panels, and an octagonal stone font. This church is a well-preserved example of an early Victorian church built in an ecclesiologically correct style.