Church Of St Paul

The Church of St. Paul is a parish church located in Thuxton, with origins dating back to the medieval period and later modifications. It is constructed from flint, featuring some galetting on the north side, with ashlar and brick dressings. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and slate. The church has a west tower, an aisleless nave with a north porch, and a former south aisle, as well as a chancel.

The west tower, which dates from the 13th century, has a staged design and a truncated octagonal bell stage, along with a projecting stair turret on the south side. It features a 2-light Y-traceried west window with a rectangular sound hole above. The tower's stone and tile broaches taper it to an octagonal top storey that lacks bell openings. There is a blocked arcade to the south, which has three 2-light Victorian traceried windows beneath the former arches. The church also has three 3-light late-medieval clearstorey windows with rectangular heads and cusped lights.

The reconstructed north doorway and porch are mostly modern, but they include two surviving nook shafts with polygonal bell capitals. The lower part of the north wall retains some masonry from the 11th or early 12th century, with one remaining ferruginous conglomerate eastern quoin. Inside, there are two fine 3-light panel-traceried windows with 4-centred heads. The chancel features a 13th-century plain-chamfered priest's door and a modern 2-light Y-traceried window to the north. An interesting 13th-century triple-lancet east window exhibits early bar tracery, alongside two 13th-century lancets of unequal width on the south side and one modern lancet in a blocked archway to the former south aisle.

The tower arch, dating from the 15th century, is double-ogee and wave moulded, supported by polygonal responds with crenellated carved capitals. The 19th-century chancel arch is designed in a late medieval style. There was a former 3-bay arcade with partly obscured and rendered quatrefoil piers, featuring plain-chamfered arches of two orders. The church also had double piscinae and double sedilia, of which only one cusped piscina arch remains. A tiny aumbry is located at floor level on the south side of the chancel. A Victorian carved stone reredos arcade is styled in the manner of the 14th century. Some fragments of medieval glass can be found in the west window and the north chancel window, while the east window, depicting a crucifixion scene, was installed in 1896.