Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- night-roof-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Paul, Wetheral
- OS grid reference
- NY 473 563
- Coordinates
- 54.89888, -2.82292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Paul is a church built in 1845 by John Dobson for Peter Dixon of Holme Eden. It features snecked sandstone ashlar and a Welsh slate roof with coped gables, designed in a Norman style. The west tower has clasping buttresses, string courses, and a tall broach spire with one tier of lucarnes, along with a south porch. The nave consists of five bays and a single bay chancel with a polygonal apse, featuring tripartite windows with two lights, blind side lights, and engaged column surrounds. The eaves are adorned with sounded dentils. There is a projecting vestry with a gable roof, and the chancel has clasping buttresses at the angles and a tripartite east window in the apse.
Inside, the furnishings have been altered since the church was built. The entrance to the nave from the tower includes a panelled door with a large leaded fanlight and the carved Royal Arms of Queen Victoria above it. The open timber roof has arch braces supported by wall columns, and the chancel arch features dog-tooth decoration with a rib-vaulted apse. There are several white marble wall plaques, and stained glass in the east window depicting the Last Supper, created by John Scott of Carlisle in 1845, as well as a west window of St Paul from the same year. This site is not ancient.
Local climate
Church of St Paul sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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