Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Church.

Church of St Paul

WRENN ID
stranded-brick-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1985
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Paul, Flash, Quarnford, Staffordshire Moorlands
OS grid reference
SK 025 671
Coordinates
53.20186, -1.96277
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Paul is a parish church that was rebuilt around 1901 by W.R. Bryden of Buxton. It is constructed of coursed stone with a red tile roof and features verge parapets. The church includes a tower, nave, chancel, and attached transepts, all designed in a loosely early English style. The short tower, located to the west, has three stages and is supported by three-stage angle buttresses. It features trefoil-headed windows and a twin-light bell chamber with a pointed arch and a quatrefoil above, topped with a ramped parapet at the angles.

The nave consists of three bays, with two-stage buttresses between the bays and two-light trefoil-headed windows with pointed labels above. The chancel is lower than the nave and has attached lower transepts, circular windows with trefoil lights, and a five-light Geometric East window.

Inside, the church is accessed through the tower. The nave is aisleless, featuring an almost semi-circular chancel arch supported by corbelled imposts. The roof is arch-braced with a collar, a king post above, and twin purlins with cusped wind braces. The chancel roof is coffered and boarded. Notable interior features include a circular stone pulpit with high-relief carved fruit and a brattished top rail, a gabled reredos, and a blind-arcaded square 19th-century font. The church also contains stained glass in the East and central North windows.

Local climate

Church of St Paul sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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