Church Of Saint Paul

HEALEY

1159/2/28 MAIN STREET 06-JUL-04 (North side) CHURCH OF SAINT PAUL

II* Church. 1848 by E B Lamb. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. Nave with south porch, central tower with transepts, chancel. Decorated style. Nave: 3 bays. Plinth. Offset diagonal buttress at west end, offset angle buttresses divide bays, all with pinnacles. 2- light pointed-arch cusped windows with hood-moulds. West bay has gabled porch with chamfered pointed-arched doorway with hood-mould. Chamfered coping and hood-mould. Parapet with chamfered coping. Tower has offset angle buttresses and 2-light pointed-arch cusped windows, cornice, stone broach spire with 4 lucarnes. Transepts: offset angle buttresses, round chamfered window, band, parapet with chamfered coping, flat roofs. Chancel: 2 bays, similar to nave, but windows are single-light. Interior: crossing has 4 narrow tower arches; in the corners are heavy, gradually-projecting rusticated squinches lead up to tower, a second set higher up lead up to spire. Stone altar rail with trefoil cutouts and central cast iron gates, wooden pews with carved ends, choir stalls, pulpit and font, all by Lamb. Timber framed roof with decoratively carved scissor trusses. Stained glass window on north side commissioned by Lamb and bears his cypher and 1848 date, west window also probably by Lamb, east by Sir Robert Frankland-Russell.