Church Of St Paul

NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME

SJ8545NW VICTORIA ROAD 644-1/11/57 (North East side) 27/09/72 Church of St Paul

GV II

Parish Church. 1905-8. By R. Scrivener. Red sandstone, rusticated, coursed and squared, with tiled roofs. NW tower and spire, nave with 2 aisles, chancel. Perpendicular style. Tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses and decorative traceried bands surmounted by octagonal lantern with parapet and spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes. Doorway in base of tower with ogee arch and niche containing statue over. In west wall of nave, giant 7-light west window over canted bay with square headed 2-light windows. Projecting west porch clasps the south aisle. Low aisles with small square-headed windows, and high clerestorey above with 3-light traceried windows. Paired gables to south aisle chapel. 5-light east window to chancel. INTERIOR: very simple and open, to the specifications of the first incumbant. Narrow low aisles form ambulatory, with arcade of 3 bays with wide 4-centred arches. Decoratve string course runs below clerestory windows, the bays marked by shafts carried on angel corbels which carry cambered trusses and tie beams. Intermediate cambered trusses carried on higher corbels. No nave pews, instead the chairs specified in the original brief survive, mounted on low dais. Simple chamfered chancel arch with hood mould. Altar piece of 1940-45 by the Wareham guild, adding to the original traceried panelled altar an oak panelled surround with riddle posts capped by angels and painted. Encaustic tiles to chancel and nave, possibly by Minton. Organ in south chancel chapel by William Hill. Pulpit and lectern taken from Saint Judes, Hanley, also by Scrivener, and now demolished. Western baptistery with small font on marble shafts with foliate capitals, 1899, taken from the tin church which formerly stood on this site. Stained glass: East window of 1918. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: Harmondsworth; The Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Jenkins J G: A History of Newcastle Under Lyme: Stafford: 1983-: 24).

Listing NGR: SJ8536145922