Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is a church of 1844, designed by Henry Ward, with a steeple added in 1887 by Robert Griffiths. It is constructed of ashlar with a fishscale tile roof. The building is cruciform in plan, comprising a 2-bay chancel and transepts, a south-east steeple, and a 4-bay nave.

The exterior features coped gables, offset buttresses, and diagonal buttresses. The chancel has a 6-light east window with a roundel above depicting a winged ox with a human face; 2-light windows are located to the north and south. The transepts have 4-light north and south windows, with roundels above, likely depicting an eagle and a winged lion (currently obscured by scaffolding). The steeple has diagonal buttresses that become shallow angle buttresses, a sill course with a quatrefoil, 2-light louvred bell openings with head stops to the hoods, a cornice with Tudor flowers, and a broach spire forming plain pinnacles. A weathercock is present. The nave has 2-light north and south windows, while the west facade has a single-order entrance with a hood featuring head stops, flanked by windows of 2 single-chamfered trefoil-headed lights. The 5-light west window has a roundel above, displaying a relief of a winged man and a large figure of St Paul.

Inside, the church has hammer beam roofs with pendants and cusping, and double-chamfered crossing arches on round shafts. An ashlar west gallery rests on three arches with ball-flower and arcaded balcony front. Other fittings include panelling to sill height, an altar with riddel posts, ex-situ stalls to the crossing arcaded fronts, a pulpit with tracery panels, a timber lectern in the form of an eagle with crouched lions to a cruciform base, an altar to the south transept, and an octagonal font decorated with shields in quatrefoils. Encaustic tiles are also present. The church contains stained glass from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including work by Hardman and Co, A.J. Davies of Bromsgrove, and Smith of St John's Wood, with a particularly noteworthy east window from the 19th century.