Church Of St Paulinus, Presbytery And Attached Outbuildings

The Church of St Paulinus, along with its adjacent presbytery and outbuildings, was constructed in 1837 by Ignatius Bonomi for William Lawson. The buildings are constructed of sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof.

The church is a two-story structure with five bays. The ground floor originally housed a vestibule and schoolrooms, while the first floor contains the church itself, comprising a combined nave and chancel, a north tribune used as a family pew, and a north vestry connected internally to the presbytery. The west front features angle buttresses that terminate in gables. A central doorway, designed in the Early English style with two shafted orders, is topped with a crucifix. Above the doorway are five stepped lancet windows beneath a semicircular label, with a trefoil in the gable. The south elevation is characterized by bays separated by gabled buttresses. The ground floor features cross-windows with depressed-trefoil heads, with a blank fifth bay. A string course runs along the elevation. The first floor has paired lancets in a pointed arch in the first bay, three stepped lancets in a round arch in the second to fourth bays, and a single lancet in the fifth bay. The east end mirrors the south side, with ground-floor windows and a five-light first-floor window as at the west end.

The attached presbytery, located at the east end of the church, has a double-depth plan and is two stories high with three bays. The south elevation has ground-floor openings with shouldered lintels and paired sash windows. A studded board door with an eight-pane overlight is centrally placed. A string course features, and the first floor has paired trefoil-headed lights under semicircular hood-moulds. A coped parapet tops the building, along with stacks containing five chimneys to the left and two chimneys to each gable on the right. A right return displays two external stacks.

A walled yard to the rear includes single-story stables and other outbuildings designed to match the presbytery.

Inside the church, the ground floor vestibule features central octagonal columns, hatchments of the Lawson family, and two staircases leading to the first floor. The first floor showcases inner shafting with foliage on the capitals, referencing the window detailing. A two- and three-light window with inner shafting is on the north side. An arcade leads to the tribune, incorporating two round arches separated by a trefoil-headed doorway, a low screen wall with trefoiled arcading (inspired by the tomb of Walter de Gray in York Minster), and a date inscription. The main roof structure comprises semicircular braces supporting collars with crown-posts. The altar, in Early English style, features five trefoiled arches, also based on Walter de Gray’s tomb. It contains a sarcophagus holding the remains of St Innocent, presented to William Lawson by Pope Gregory XVI. A trefoil-arched reredos created by Milburn of York was installed to celebrate the church's Jubilee in 1887. The grisaille glass in the east window is a copy of the Five Sisters Window at York Minster. Stained glass in four south windows was created by Wailes between 1857 and 1862, while a north-west window bears glass by H M Barnett of Newcastle from 1880. The tribune contains an 11th-century font with a rope motif.