Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul, now known as Elim Church, is an Anglican church built between 1869 and 1870 by architects Habershon and Brock. It is constructed from quarry-faced red sandstone resting on a chamfered plinth, featuring stepped buttresses and a string course. The roof is made of graduated greenslate with coped gables and cross finials.

The church has a five-bay nave with aisles and transepts, a north-east tower base that serves as a porch, and a south vestry. The west entrance features double doors set in a shallow-gabled porch, with a moulded arch supported by shafts, and is topped by a large plate-traceried window and a rose window in the gable. The aisles are flanked by smaller similar windows, while the north and south aisles have paired lancets with quatrefoil heads. The clerestory has paired sunk cinquefoil windows within blind paired arches, and the transepts contain plate traceried windows. The tower base has a door similar to the west doorway, and the chancel features paired lancets along with a plate tracery east window. The vestry has a plank door set in a chamfered flattened arch.

Inside, the church has pointed aisle arches made of alternating red and yellow blocks of sandstone supported by round columns. There is a carved oak pulpit dedicated to the memory of Samuel Waldegrave, the Bishop of Carlisle. The east window and nave contain some 19th and 20th-century stained glass. The interior also features an open timber roof and a 20th-century screen at the west end.

The original plans for the church, dated 1869, are held at the Cumbria County Record Office. The Carlisle Journal recorded the laying of the foundation stone, and the church was consecrated on 30 November 1870. It became known as the Church of St Paul and St Mary in 1932, was closed in 1976, and was declared redundant in 1978 when all fittings were removed.