Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- inner-pilaster-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Paul, Poyle Road, Tongham
- OS grid reference
- SU 887 489
- Coordinates
- 51.23269, -0.73043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Paul is a church built in 1865 by Ewan Christian. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a plain tiled roof with a wood shingled fleche. The church has a nave and an apsed chancel, with a porch on the south side and a fleche on the roof at the east end. There are three lancet windows on the nave walls and coupled lancet windows to the east of the buttress that supports the chancel arch. The apsed end has six windows, with plate tracery on the west window. The south porch is timber framed and gabled, adorned with billet decoration on the tie beam and a cusped, carved bargeboard. It has double half-glazed outer doors and ribbed inner doors.
Inside, the church is simple and whitewashed, featuring a King-post roof with principal timbers resting on corbels. The chancel arch has foliage carving on the corbels and a panelled soffit. The panelled apse includes painted roundels, and the chancel windows have cusped rear-arches. There are 20th-century fittings, including an iron scroll work screen and an octagonal stone font.
Local climate
Church of St Paul receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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