Church Of St Paul

The Church of St. Paul is a church built in 1837 by Thomas Talbot Bury, with a sanctuary, north porch, and northwest vestry added in 1889. It features uncoursed flint with stone dressings on the porch, vestry, and sanctuary, while the rest of the building is finished in stucco, topped with steep slate roofs. This church is designed in an austere lancet style and has a cruciform layout, including a chancel, transepts, nave, north porch, and northwest vestry. The west gable rises into a bell turret with cruciform coping, and the liturgical east end is located at the west end of the building.

Inside, the north transept houses a large panelled organ with a vestry beneath it. The interior is notable for its tall single lancet windows, with triple windows at the east, north, and south gables. The open timber roof features scissor-braced principals and two purlins, with the cross-wing impressively open without trusses. There are five windows along the nave, one window in the chancel, and one in the lower, more ornate sanctuary, which has a boarded segmental waggon ceiling and a four-light Decorated style east window set within a wide arch with two chamfered orders and paired corbelled jamb-shafts.

Additional features include carved oak choir stalls, an octagonal stone pulpit from 1911, and an octagonal panelled stone font with an oak cover and green marble shafts at the base, dating from 1889. The organ, built by Wm Hill and Sons of London in 1898, was previously located at Belhaven Church in Glasgow and was installed here in 1964. The church also contains polychrome stained glass windows from 1863 and 1872, commemorating the first incumbents, Rev Henry Dennis and Rev W Vincent, respectively. The pews are made of sober pine, and the floor is laid with York stone. A low wooden screen with arches now separates the two eastern bays. A fine stained glass window created by John Hayward in 1965 depicts Christ in a radiant vesica. Lithographs in the vestry reveal the original simple cruciform design of the building, which had a centrally located entrance in the east gable, where the cill shows signs of having been lowered.