Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Parish church.
Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- other-plaster-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of St Paul, High Road, Gorefield
- OS grid reference
- TF 416 120
- Coordinates
- 52.68769, 0.09489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paul is a parish church built in 1870 in the early English style. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings on the buttresses and around the window and door openings. The church features slate roofs that are parapetted, with a gabled bell-cote at the east end of the nave. The west wall has a quatrefoil above a window consisting of two pointed lights with a foiled head, flanked by two lancet windows. The south wall is divided into four bays by two-stage buttressing, with each bay containing one window of two pointed lights with a quatrefoil, except for the central bay which has a circular window. The south porch is gabled and has a two-centred outer archway that is hollow and roll moulded, with attached shafts leading to responds that have moulded capitals and bases.
Inside, the chancel's east wall features a quatrefoil above a window with three trefoil lights set in a two-centred arch. The pulpit is made of stone, octagonal on a stem with subsidiary shafts, and includes a gabled niche that contains a sculpture of Christ in the act of benediction. The chancel arch is two-centred and consists of two chamfered orders, with the inner arch supported by corbels. There is a similar arch leading to the vestry and an organ chamber off the chancel. The original tiled floor and stencilled wall decoration can be seen at the east end of the chancel, which includes a painted boarded roof.
Local climate
Church of St Paul sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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