Church Of St Paul

COLTON RUSLAND SD 38 NW 6/65 Church of St Paul 25.3.70 (formerly listed as Church of St Paul II Rusland)

Church. 1745, rebuilt except for tower, 1868. Slate rubble with ashlar dressings. Nave, chancel with north vestry, and west tower. Rectangular-plan tower has diagonal buttresses; west entrance has pointed arch with gable, lancet over has dripmould. Bell stage has straight-headed louvred openings of 3 pointed lights. Embattled parapet. 5-bay nave has weathered buttresses, straight-headed windows of 2 cusped ogee-headed lights. 2-bay chancel has 3-light east window with Geometrical tracery; south side has straight-headed windows of 2 cusped lights with single-chamfered nullions; eastern bay has segmental arched recess over tomb of 1844. North side has gabled vestry with Y-tracery north window. Interior: Roof has simple hammer-beam trusses with braced collars. Double-chamfered chancel arch, the inner part corbelled. Octagonal pulpit with tracery panels. Reredos with ornamental brattishing. East window has painted text round arch; flanking painted commandments, Lord's Prayer and Creed. Good late C19 stained glass, the east window possibly by Hardman. Porch in tower has timber vault.

Listing NGR: SD3384289653