Church Of St Paul

This is an Anglican church dating from 1873-4, designed by W.G. Habershon and A.R. Pite. It is constructed of ragstone with Bath stone dressings and has a two-coloured slate roof. The church is cruciform in plan.

The exterior comprises a wide-aisled nave of four bays with relatively shallow transepts, and a lower-roofed chancel; a two-bay chancel is flanked by an organ chamber and choir vestry to the south and a priest’s vestry to the north. A four-stage tower, buttressed at the corners and with gargoyles, rises towards a broach spire at the southwest corner. Large Decorated windows are present on the nave, transepts, and chancel. The clerestory features small openings in the form of alternating trefoils and quatrefoils set in circular frames. The south wall of the transept has a wide Decorated window with traceried lights in the lower section and a circular window containing trefoils and quatrefoils above. Lancet windows with trefoils in the heads are on the lower section of the transept, while the north transept and north wall of the nave mirror the south side. A projecting porch surrounds the west door, above which is a rose window.

The interior has four bays, with a fifth, larger, deeper bay extending into the transepts. It features a timber roof with arched trusses. The aisles have pent roofs with carved braces. The chancel arch is supported by thin colonnettes with carved bases and capitals and a moulded pointed arch. Nave arcades are supported by round pillars with foliated capitals; above these pillars, colonnettes stand on stone brackets. The west door is surrounded by a stone frontispiece with a triangular, crocketed gable. Aisle windows are of three lights with splayed embrasures.

The wide east window contains stained glass depicting scenes from the life and teaching of St Paul, added in 1883. North side windows depict "Christ the Carpenter" and "Harvest" by Alan Younger, dated 1967. The remaining glass is of less exceptional quality.

Original pews with moulded tops to the backs remain. The organ is located on the south side of the chancel, featuring painted pipes and quatrefoils carved onto the organ case. A stone octagonal font has trefoils and quatrefoils alternating on the side panels. A pulpit, dating from around 1917, was donated in memory of Edith Beven.