Church Of St Paul

The Church of St Paul is a church built between 1853 and 1854, designed by J Murray. Later additions include a north aisle, reportedly in 1861, a south aisle in 1867, and a chancel in 1932. A west porch is dated 1951. The church is constructed from snecked limestone with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. It comprises a nave, north and south aisles, a gabled porch on the south side, and a lower chancel with a polygonal apse. The west end features a buttress rising to a bell-turret with a stone spirelet. The nave and aisles have windows with Geometrical tracery; the north aisle has 2-light windows, while the nave and south aisle windows are 4-light. The porch has a mullioned window of 3 lights facing west and a doorway in its south wall. The north aisle incorporates a vestry and has 2-light windows with flowing tracery. The south porch contains a pointed window of 2 lights and a mullioned window of 4 trefoiled lights in a 20th-century extension. A re-set moulded pointed doorway is found in the east wall. The south aisle's three bays each have 2-light windows with quatrefoils. The east window is of 4 lights, and the three-sided apse has a 3-light east window.

Inside, the five-bay arcades have pointed sandstone arches, chamfered in two orders and carried on paired brown marble columns with sandstone capitals. The chancel arch is moulded and pointed, with the inner order rising from wall corbels. The roofs are boarded, with scissor-braced rafters. A tall pointed arch separates the south aisle from an east chapel, containing two tall arches leading into the chancel. The organ chamber on the north side has arched openings to the chancel and north aisle. The font is made of carved oak, with an inset metal bowl and a carved timber cover. At the west end are two pairs of churchwardens’ stalls with carved canopies and finely carved oak wall panelling, dating from the mid-20th century.