Church Of St Paul

HENNOCK CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON SX 87 NW

5/116 Church of St Paul - GV II

Parish Church, orignally a chapel of ease. Built 1841-2 by G.G. Scott and W B Moffat, decorated and fitted by Medley 1846. Flint pebble walls with limestone ashlar dressings. Slated roofs with stone-coped gables and kneelers. Nave, chancel, north and south transepts. Bell turret with bell on west gable. Nave has 3 lancet windows each side. West front has 3 stepped lancets. Doorway with 2- centred arch below it. At either side, is a large limestone cross, set into the pebbles. The transepts each have 2 lancet windows with a smaller quatrefoil light above. In the apex of the gable a limestone cross. The south transept, which also serves as an entrance porch, has a doorway with 2-centred arch. Chancel has a stepped triple lancet east window, matching that at the west end. In north and south walls a single lancet. Good simple original interior. Interesting mid C20 glass in east window. Sources: N Pevsner, South Devon, 1952, p.79. White's Devon, 1850, pp.471-2. Church accounts, 1846-50 (Devon Record Office, 2922A add./PZ6).

Listing NGR: SX8455177383