Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. Church.

Church of St Paul

WRENN ID
proud-cornice-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1969
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Paul, the Village, Aldbrough
OS grid reference
NZ 202 112
Coordinates
54.49603, -1.6884
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Paul is a chapel of ease built in 1890 by W S Hicks for Eleanor, the dowager Duchess of Northumberland. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Westmorland slate roof, designed in the Early English style. The church has a three-bay nave with a south porch and a two-bay chancel, which includes choir and clergy vestries on the north and south sides.

The exterior includes plinths, quoins, and moulded sill strings. The porch has a pointed-arched doorway with a moulded arris and hoodmould, a gable with an apex cross, and paired lancet windows on the side returns. The nave, to the right of the porch, features a lancet window, a buttress, and paired lancets. The left gable has an octagonal bell turret with shouldered openings on all sides and a spirelet, along with a gable cross to the right. The west end of the nave has a tall lancet window set in a buttress that supports the bell turret.

In the chancel, there is a lancet window to the right and a gable cross to the right, with a lean-to vestry on the left that has smaller paired lancets. The east end is flanked by stepped buttresses and features triple stepped lancet windows with hoodmoulds.

Inside, the chancel arch consists of two chamfered orders with capitals decorated with nailhead designs. The arches leading to the vestries are continuously moulded, chamfered, and have hoodmoulds. The lancet windows have shouldered heads, and the south lancet in the chancel continues down to form a sedile. There is a trefoil-headed aumbry in the sanctuary, and the roofs of the nave and chancel are adorned with stencilled decoration.

Local climate

Church of St Paul receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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