Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is a parish church dating from 1853-5, designed by H.J. Stevens of Derby and commissioned by Sir Robert Peel. It is constructed of random rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. The church comprises a 6-bay nave with north and south aisles and a gabled south porch, a single-bay chancel, a 2-bay western annexe, and a north-east vestry.

The western annexe features a west window comprising a pair of lancets with plate traceried quatrefoil beneath a common hood mould with stiff-leaf stops. The north side has two pointed windows, each with a hood mould and stiff leaf stops. The pointed south door has colonettes and a roll moulded arch. The nave and aisles have buttresses, and each bay contains a pair of lancets with hood moulds; the western bay has a single lancet. The west windows of the aisles are paired lancets, and the east window of the south aisle is similarly patterned, with roll and fillet moulded arches springing from colonettes. It has a hood mould with stiff leaf stops, and the pointed north door has a roll and fillet moulded arch springing from colonettes with water holding bases and moulded capitals, topped by a roll and fillet moulded hood with stiff leaf stops. The gabled south porch has a pointed roll and fillet moulded doorway of two orders, colonettes, and a hood mould. The chancel's east window consists of three graded lancets under a common hood mould with stiff leaf stops, banded colonettes, and roll and fillet moulded arches.

Inside, a pointed west arch of two chamfered orders is now screened off. There's no structural division between the nave and chancel. The nave arcade features pointed arches of two chamfered orders on octagonal columns with moulded bases and capitals. A small clerestorey rises above, with pointed rere arches. The nave has an arch braced collar roof, while the aisles have lean-to roofs. A 5-bay reredos with trefoil headed panels and colonettes is also present. Contemporary fittings include pews, a font with a cylindrical pedestal surrounded by detached colonettes supporting a cylindrical basin, a wooden hexagonal pulpit with arcaded sides, a lectern and a priest's bench. Stained glass includes an east window from 1868 depicting St Paul at the centre and the four evangelists on either side, and early 20th century glass in a south aisle window.