Former Church of St Paul

The former Church of St Paul was built between 1870 and 1871, designed by F.W. Ordish and J.C. Traylen. It is constructed of Mountsorrel granite rubble with limestone dressings, featuring slate roofs with stone-coped gables and kneelers. The building includes a chancel, a south-east tower, a north-east vestry, a nave with aisles, and north and south porches.

The church is designed in an Early French Gothic style, with buttresses throughout. The east end has an apse with five triple lancet windows, each topped with a rose window under separate gables, and tall buttresses between. The north-east vestry has a three-light and a two-light window with plate tracery on its east side. The two-stage tower, located to the south of the chancel, has a hipped roof. It includes a door with a two-light window and a staircase projection to the east. The aisles have three-light windows, and the nave clerestory above has two-light windows with plate tracery. The west end features a triple lancet window with a rose window above, and gabled porches to the north and south at the west end of the aisles.

The interior is tall and features a chancel with stained glass in the easternmost window and an elaborate reredos of carved stone, marble, and mosaic. There are choir stalls, panelling to the walls, a low screen with iron gates, and a boarded chancel roof with arched braces supported on wall posts rising from stone corbels. A stone and marble pulpit and a wooden altar with painted panels are located at the head of the nave. The nave arcades are of striped stone and brick, supported on circular and octagonal piers with carved capitals. The nave roof is constructed of cusped arched braces pierced above, supporting two tiers of purlins and rafters that cross at the gable apex, and rests on wall posts rising from carved stone corbels. There are pews in the nave and aisles, and the aisle windows contain 19th and 20th-century stained glass, some by Burlison and Grylls and Morris and Co. A square font, set on a base with colonnettes, is located in the north aisle.

The church demonstrates a careful use of materials both externally and internally, and its interior retains nearly all original fittings. It is recognised for its group value.