Church Of St Jude And St Paul

The Church of St Jude and St Paul is an Anglican church dating to 1885, designed by Alexander Dick Gough. It was enlarged in 1871, including rebuilding the chancel by Edwin Clare. The church is constructed of Kentish ragstone rubble with Bath stone dressings, and has roofs of Welsh slate. It comprises a chancel, transepts, a nave, north and south aisles, a tower set into the angle of the nave and south transept, and a west narthex porch.

The narthex porch features an arcaded parapet. The nave has four-and-a-half bays, and the south aisle has two-and-a-half bays under a lean-to roof. South aisle windows have three lights with panel tracery and hoodmoulds featuring carved heads as label stops. Clerestory windows are formed of sexfoiled spherical triangles modified to a flat base, set within recessed flat-arched panels. The four-stage tower incorporates setback buttresses rising through three stages, and two-light openings in the belfry, featuring carved figures with scrolls at the corners. A broach spire with lucarnes to the cardinal directions tops the tower. The north aisle has four bays under its own gabled roof, with three-light windows between buttresses, and an upper range of windows with cusped heads within flat-arched moulded panels. Transepts have six-light windows with panel tracery and a spherical triangle above; a gabled porch is situated on the north transept, flanked by small, 20th-century additions. The three-bay chancel has windows with panel tracery, with the lower part of the first north window blocked by a cross-gabled, single-storey vestry. The five-light east window features Geometrical tracery and a spherical triangle above.

Inside, a former west gallery arcade has been filled in. The nave arcade, also filled in on both sides, originally consisted of three bays on the north with corbelled and shafted responds and stiff-leaf capitals, and two bays on the south, featuring similar responds and capitals, but with the third bay occupied by an elaborate organ case and gallery. Clerestory windows are set under segmental pointed arches. The north transept is partly partitioned off for school use. The nave roof is carried on corbelled wall-shafts, employing queen-post trusses with arched braces above the tie-beam, and with two additional diagonal trusses across the crossing. The chancel arch is multi-moulded, with shafts on corbels. Chancel windows have ogee mouldings, and the east wall features cusped blank arcading with encaustic tiles and painted texts. The chancel roof has an unusual braced collar design with circular braces above the collar-beam. The interior has been painted, carpeted, and the original pews removed, leaving only chancel stalls.