Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. A C18 Church.
Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- western-rampart-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Paul, Colton, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 338 896
- Coordinates
- 54.2982, -3.01805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paul is a church built in 1745, with the exception of the tower, which was rebuilt in 1868. It is constructed of slate rubble with ashlar dressings and features a nave, chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has a rectangular plan and diagonal buttresses, with a west entrance that includes a pointed arch and a gable. Above this entrance is a lancet window with a drip moulding. The bell stage of the tower has straight-headed louvred openings with three pointed lights and is topped with an embattled parapet.
The nave consists of five bays and has weathered buttresses, with straight-headed windows featuring two cusped ogee-headed lights. The two-bay chancel has a three-light east window with Geometrical tracery, while the south side has straight-headed windows with two cusped lights and single-chamfered mullions. The eastern bay of the chancel has a segmental arched recess above a tomb from 1844. The north side features a gabled vestry with a Y-tracery window.
Inside, the roof is supported by simple hammer-beam trusses with braced collars. The chancel arch is double-chamfered, with the inner part corbelled. There is an octagonal pulpit adorned with tracery panels and a reredos featuring ornamental brattishing. The east window includes a painted text around the arch, with flanking painted commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and the Creed. The church also contains good late 19th-century stained glass, with the east window possibly created by Hardman. The porch in the tower features a timber vault.
Local climate
Church of St Paul sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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