Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Paul

WRENN ID
grim-bracket-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1963
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Paul, the Green, Culham, OX14 4LZ
OS grid reference
SU 501 949
Coordinates
51.65131, -1.27607
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Paul is a church that features a tower built around 1710, with the nave, aisles, and south transept constructed around 1852 by Joseph Clarke, and the chancel added in 1872 by R.P. Spiers. The tower is made of uncoursed stone rubble, while the rest of the church is built from squared coursed stone with ashlar stone dressings, topped with an old plain-tile roof. The church has a four-bay nave, a north aisle, a south transept, a chancel, and a west tower, all designed in an Early English style.

Notable architectural features include a two-centred archway with a hood mould and a triangular moulded surround at the porch to the left of the nave's center. The entrance has double plank doors with wrought iron hinges leading to a two-centre arched doorway. The windows are characterized by two-light plate tracery and trefoil lancets. The base of the tower features a doorway with a plank door, and the tower itself consists of two stages with louvred openings on each side at the top and a plain parapet with stepped corners.

Inside, the chancel has a wooden barrel-vault ceiling, while the nave boasts a four-bay arch-braced collar truss roof. The chancel walls are decorated with 19th-century stencil work, and there is a piscina to the right of the chancel. The chancel arch is two-centred and supported by half-columns, and the transept arch is also two-centred, resting on corbels. The aisle arcade consists of three two-centred arches on columns. The church contains 19th-century pews with wrought iron candelabra at the ends and an octagonal stone font from the same period, which has a pierced wood cover.

Local climate

Church of St Paul sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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