Church Of St Paul

cy 09 NW BROADCLYST WESTWOOD

6/134 Church of St Paul - - II

Church. 1874. Financed and possibly designed by C A W Troyte at a cost of £1,250. Rubble volcanic trap with slate roofs banded in two colours. Decorated style; 2- cell church of nave and chancel with south porch, north-east vestry and west bellcote. Exterior: all windows under hood moulds and floriated terminals. West front: moulded kneelers and buttresses flush with west face, 4 light reticulated west window, bellcote with 2 off-sets and a single, chamfered bell opening, small trefoil set between window and bellcote. South front: porch to extreme west end, entrance arch under hood mould and terminals, and semi-detached shafts with bell capitals; two 2 light windows to nave with spiky decorated tracery; east end of nave marked by buttress (with 2 off-sets) under kneeled and coped gable. Chancel set well back with two 1 light trefoil- headed windows. 3 light Decorated east window. North east vestry with east door and to the north an end stack with paired, octagonal, crenellated caps. Three 2 light Decorated windows to north of nave. Interior: nave with 3 main bays, each subdivided, principals (arch braces and collars) resting on moulded stone corbels. Chancel roof with canted common rafters. Chancel arch of 2 orders, with foliated corbels, the responds plain. All windows with deep reveals. Reredos: arcade (3:5:3) of stone and polished limestone trefoil- headed arches. Font: stone, octagonal. Pulpit: stone, polygonal and approached from behind.

Listing NGR: SY0171298965