Church Of St Paul

ALDBROUGH THE VILLAGE NZ 2011-2111 (east side)

Aldbrough St John 11/23 Church of St Paul 4.2.69 GV II

Chapel of ease. 1890. By W S Hicks for Eleanor, the dowager Duchess of Northumberland. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, Westmorland slate roof. Early English style. 3-bay nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel with cnoir and clergy vestries to north and south. Plinths. Quoins. Moulded sill strings. Porch: pointed-arched doorway with moulded arris and hoodmould; gable with apex cross; paired lancet windows in side returns; inner doorway matching. Nave: to right of porch: lancet; buttress, paired lancets. On left gable, octagonal bell turret with shouldered openings to south, west, north and east, and with spirelet; gable cross to right. West end of nave: tall lancet set in buttress which supports the bell turret. Chancel: lancet window to right, gable cross to right; to left, lean-to vestry with smaller paired lancets. East end: stepped buttresses flanking triple stepped lancet windows with hoodmould. Interior: chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders, the capitals with nailhead decoration; arches to vestries are continuously moulded, chamfered and with hoodmoulds; lancet windows have shouldered heads; the chancel south lancet continues down to form sedile; trefoil-headed aumbry in sanctuary; stencilled decoration on boarding of roofs of nave and chancel.

Listing NGR: NZ2028111233