Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building located in Winchmore Hill, Enfield. It was constructed between 1826 and 1827 by architect John Davies and was refurbished after a fire in 1844, with a chancel added between 1888 and 1889. The church is built of yellow brick with stone dressings and features a shallow pitched roof behind a parapet.

The west front of the church has a central gabled porch adorned with crocketted pinnacles, which fronts a stone frontispiece with an ogee window that rises to a small bellcote, flanked by shorter stone pinnacles. The porch is accompanied by thin ogee niches and corner stone crocketted pinnacles. The side elevations are punctuated by pointed lancet windows, and the main range is capped with a pair of similar pinnacles, leading to the lower chancel that has a canted east end.

Inside, the church is an aisless space with a flat ceiling supported by pierced brackets. The high chancel arch frames a central east window, created in 1892 by Clayton and Bell, depicting the Ascension. The reredos is made of Caen stone and features Devonshire marble shafts and a shelf designed by Jones and Willis in 1899. An oak pulpit with a Gothic canopy is present, and at the west end, there is a full-width gallery with three bays defined by extremely shallow four-pointed arches at the ground floor, with the central bay featuring crocketted pinnacles. The marble octagonal font, designed by T.H. Knight and Sons in 1892, rests on short clustered shafts with foliate band capitals. The low south chapel, added in 1889, includes east and south windows made by Hardman.

The Church of St Paul is significant as one of the early 19th-century churches built by the Church Building Commissioners to accommodate urban growth following the Napoleonic Wars. The site was donated by Walker Gray of Southgate Grove. It is noted for its economical yet consistent early 19th-century Gothic detailing, along with later 19th-century additions that enhance its quality and decorative elements.