Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is a parish church built between 1839 and 1841 by Thomas Foster of Bristol, with transepts added in 1882. It is constructed of ashlar limestone and features a concrete tile roof. The church is designed in a Neo-Norman style, comprising a nave with an apsed chancel and a west tower, along with north and south transepts.

The nave and transept walls are supported by pilaster buttresses, and the nave includes three round-arched windows with linking hoodmoulds. Each side has a west bay featuring a false doorway that is moulded and round-arched, with attached jamb shafts that have scalloped capitals and a blank tympanum. A Lombard frieze with carved heads is present on the west bay. The transepts have gabled ends with Norman-style triplet windows and a round window above. The apsed east end showcases pilasters and small round-arched windows, along with a simpler version of the frieze.

The square west tower has a moulded round-arched west doorway and a tall round-arched window above it. The belfry features a triple arcade with small openings that have stone louvres, two corbelled string courses, and a crenellated parapet.

Inside, the church has a plain wide nave with a six-bay trussed roof and a tall round tower arch. The transepts have two-bay round-arched arcades, with the south transept containing a circa 1938 glazed screen by Peter Waals. Above the raised choir, there is a plain moulded round chancel arch leading to a tiled floor and a brass choir rail. To the left of the chancel arch is a shouldered arch leading to a raised pulpit, which features an octagonal Norman-style pulpit front. The arcaded apse contains murals by Emily and Rose Stanton, completed in 1905. The church also has 19th-century pews with Norman-style fronts and much stained glass, primarily from the late 19th century.