Church Of St Paul

SANDWELL MB WOOD GREEN ROAD/ST PAULS ROAD SO 99 NE 1/171 Church of St Paul

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Parish church. Consecrated 1874. Rock-faced red sandstone with tile roof. Comprises a nave with clerestory, a lean-to west porch, north aisle, north vestry, a south aisle under a pitched roof, and a lower chancel with a tower with a spire against its north side. Windows contain Geometric tracery of various descriptions. At the west of the nave, above the porch, are two trefoiled lights flanking a central window of two trefoiled lights. Each aisle has a west window of two lights. The north and south aisles are each of three bays. The south wall of the transept is of two bays. The east window is of five lights under a pointed head. The three-stage tower has angle buttresses and is broached to a stone spire. The bell openings are of two lights on each side, with moulded pointed heads. Interior has five-bay arcades with pointed arches and round piers with moulded caps and bases. The nave has a boarded barrel roof with tie-beams and tall bolted king-posts. The aisles have open timber roofs, the south aisle having trusses with arch-braced collars. The moulded pointed chancel arch has short attached columns as responds, carried on corbels. The chancel screen is of wrought iron. The chancel has a barrel roof, twin sedilia and a piscina, and a carved stone reredos. Windows contain some glass of late C19 and early C20 date.

Listing NGR: SO9974596098