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

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Constituency
Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 1992
Type
Church with parish room
Address
Church of St Paul's Including Parish Room, Regent Street, Shanklin
OS grid reference
SZ 582 817
Coordinates
50.63254, -1.17841
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

Local climate

Church of St Paul's Including Parish Room receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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