Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is an Anglican church located on Durnford Street in Stonehouse, Plymouth. It was built in 1831 by the architect John Foulston and extended at the east end in 1890 by Hine & Odgers. The church is constructed of coursed Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings and features a dry slate roof with moulded copings, all in the Gothic style.

The church has an aisle-less plan with a west gallery and a central west tower, along with a slightly wider later chancel at the east end. The west front has three bays and a moulded pediment, which is interrupted by a two-stage central tower that has angle buttresses and moulded strings. The tower is topped with a moulded parapet and octagonal corner pinnacles that have moulded cornices and crocketed finials, with similar pinnacles on the buttressed corners of the church. The central doorway is moulded and pointed-arched.

The nave's north and south walls have seven bays of lancet windows with hoodmoulds, set between flat buttresses and linking strings. Inside, the nave features a moulded plaster ceiling cornice with dentils, while the chancel has an arch-braced roof structure. There is an L-plan staircase with stick balusters and octagonal newels. Notable fittings include an octagonal marble font and panelled pews in the gallery, with later pitch-pine fittings added and alterations made to the west end in the late 20th century. The church has leaded glazing with coloured hammered glass from the late 19th century.

The Church of St Paul stands in a slightly altered Late Georgian street and is a significant example of the work of a prominent local architect, particularly noted for its external features.