Church Of St Paul'S Including Parish Room

SHANKLIN SZ5881 REGENT STREET 1352-0/8/208 Church of St Paul's incl Parish Room II

Church and parish room. 1875-6 by C Luck in C13 French style with porch added in 1911. Built of stone rubble with tiled roof. Nave and chancel in one with apsidal east end, north and south aisles, west porch and north-west tower. North-west tower is a slender square tower of 4 stages divided by moulded bands with rustic timbered bell opening above and pyramidal shingled spire with iron weathervane. 4th stage has 5 pointed lancets, mainly blank. West porch of 1911 has central projecting gable with stone cross, 4-centred arch and triple engaged columns flanked by lancet windows. Nave has gable ended west front with cross-shaped saddlestone. Large blank four centred arch containing central double lancet with enclosed quatrefoil above and side lancets with blocked quatrefoils above. Underneath, obscured by later porch, is four-centred arched door with double engaged columns. Clerestorey windows have double lancets divided by dripmoulding. Aisle windows have four centred arches with double lancets and circle above, with dripmoulding and buttresses. Parish room is linked to church by a 1 storey stone link. This is roughly rectangular with apsidal end and projecting 5-sided wing to left and square porch to right of this. Stone with stepped buttresses and mullioned and transomed windows to sides. West end has gable with large four-centred arch 4 lancets. Lancet windows to apse and mullioned and transomed windows to projection. Porch has four-centred arched doorcase with dripmoulding. Interior of church has nave of 4 bays with 1 bay chancel undivided. 4-centred arches on circular columns and clerestorey. Wooden roof with arch braces resting on stone corbels. Roof in 8 cants with boarded square panels. C13 style octagonal pulpit with marble columns and octagonal stone font with quatrefoil motif. Apse has stone vaulting leading to wooden roof. 1st floor has blank windows with 4-centred arches pierced by quatrefoil motifs and 2 lancets with circular columns. 2nd tier has lancets. (Buildings of England:Lloyd D:Hampshire and the Isle of Wight:769) .

Listing NGR: SZ5820281750