Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul features a chancel, nave, and south west porch. The west end of the building was originally part of a late 15th century two-storey house. It is constructed of red brick, with square-headed windows in the west wall that have obtusely pointed lights and a dripstone above the first-floor windows, which illuminate the gallery. There is a hexagonal buttress at the north west angle. The south west porch was originally two storeys high. The rest of the church was built by Lewis Way of Stansted House between 1812 and 1816 in a rudimentary Gothic style, also using red brick and some flints, with a slate roof and Churchwarden Gothic windows. Lewis Way was notably involved in the conversion of Jews, and the stained glass windows feature Jewish emblems. John Keats attended the church's consecration ceremony in 1819 while waiting to leave for Italy and referenced these windows in his poem "The Eve of St Agnes," written during that time. The church underwent restoration by H S Goodhart-Rendel for Lord Bessborough in 1926 and was restored again after sustaining bomb damage in 1947.