Church Of St Paul'S Including Parish Room is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1992. Church with parish room.
Church Of St Paul'S Including Parish Room
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1992
- Type
- Church with parish room
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paul's, with its adjoining Parish Room, was built between 1875 and 1876 by C Luck, designed in the 13th-century French Gothic style. A porch was added in 1911. The church is constructed of stone rubble with a tiled roof. It comprises a nave and chancel unified under a single roof, with apsidal east and west ends, north and south aisles, a west porch, and a north-west tower.
The slender, square north-west tower rises in four stages, divided by moulded bands, with a rustic, timber-framed bell opening above, culminating in a pyramidal shingled spire topped with an iron weathervane. The fourth stage features five pointed lancet windows, mostly blank. The 1911 west porch has a projecting gable with a stone cross, a four-centred arch, and triple engaged columns flanked by lancet windows. The west front of the nave has a gabled design, with a large four-centred arch that originally contained a central double lancet with an enclosed quatrefoil above, and side lancets with blocked quatrefoils. A four-centred arched door, previously obscured by the later porch, lies beneath. The clerestory windows have double lancets divided by a dripmoulding. Aisle windows have four-centred arches with double lancets and a circle above, with dripmoulding and buttresses.
The parish room is linked to the church by a single-story stone link, and itself is roughly rectangular with an apsidal end, a projecting five-sided wing to the left, and a square porch to the right. It features stone detailing, stepped buttresses, and mullioned and transomed windows. The west end has a gable with a large four-centred arch and four lancets. Lancet windows are present in the apse, and mullioned and transomed windows in the projection. The porch has a four-centred arched doorcase with a dripmoulding.
Inside the church, the nave has four bays and a single-bay chancel without division. Four-centred arches are supported by circular columns, and a clerestory is present. The wooden roof features arch braces resting on stone corbels; the roof structure is in eight cants with boarded square panels. The church features a Gothic-style octagonal pulpit with marble columns and an octagonal stone font with a quatrefoil motif. The apse boasts stone vaulting leading to a wooden roof. A first-floor level has blank windows with four-centred arches pierced by quatrefoil motifs and two lancets with circular columns; a second tier contains lancets.
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