Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1953. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- first-truss-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1953
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Paul, West Dean
- OS grid reference
- SO 619 076
- Coordinates
- 51.76652, -2.55238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paul is a church built in 1822 by Henry Poole. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a slate roof with gables that have saddle-back copings. The church has an octagonal shape with single-storey wings that form a cruciform layout, including a sanctuary and north and south transepts, along with a three-stage tower at the west end. The single-storey wings are supported by stepped diagonal buttresses topped with pinnacles. The west tower features an embattled parapet with stepped diagonal buttresses and additional pinnacles at the center of each side of the parapet. The tower has single lancet windows on the first and second stages, clock faces on the second stage facing south, west, and north, and a double lancet belfry stage, with all lancets having pointed hood moulds. The windows throughout the church are designed with 2 and 3-light Y tracery lancets.
Inside, the church has simple lancet panelled galleries in the transepts and an organ loft in the west, which houses an elaborate Gothick organ. There is a similarly styled pulpit and an intricate wooden reredos featuring pinnacles and the monogram "IHS" in open tracery within the central gable. The ceiling has a 12-rib vault formed by ridge and diagonal ribs that rise to a central boss. Henry Poole is also known for designing towers at Christchurch and the Market Place in Coleford, of which only the tower remains.
Local climate
Church of St Paul receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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