Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 March 1976. Church.
Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- sombre-rubblework-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1976
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Paul is an elegant building designed in the Gothic style. It features a nave, aisles, and chancel, constructed with stone walls that have dressings, banks, and quoins made of contrasting stone. The roofs are covered with slate. The entrance front wall of the nave, facing Mostyn Avenue, showcases chequer work at the apex of the gable end and a very tall window with plate tracery, which includes two paired lights and an octafoil above. Below this, there is a gabled porch with a cusped head to the moulded arch.
Inside, the lofty nave boasts an elaborate open arch-braced and wind-braced roof, supported by wall shafts on fluted corbels. The walling is made of buff and red sandstone. The aisle arcades are distinguished by black marble cylindrical piers, known as fossil marble from Frosterley in Northumberland. The aisle windows have rerearches with central freestanding columns. At the clerestorey level, round hexafoil windows are set within round-headed arcading, flanked by blind lancets.
The chancel arch is adorned with black marble shafts featuring annulets, and the chancel floor is covered with polychrome tiles. To the left of the chancel, there is a two-arched organ chamber with a black marble central shaft, while to the right are the sedilia and aumbrey. The chancel roof has two bays with wall shafts. The east window, created in 1913 by Powell & Sons of London, adds to the church's character.
Additional features include an octagonal pink marble pulpit with polychrome insets depicting symbols of the evangelists, a font with a green marble bowl and shaft on a stepped base of grey marble, and an organ installed by William Hill in 1910. The north (seaward) wall of the chancel also displays chequer work at the apex of the gable end and features a large three-light window, while the east chancel wall has two two-light windows with quatrefoils above. Adjacent to the chancel, there is a block with a tall stone chimney and a lower block with a pitched roof, which includes a three-light window to the north and a flat-roofed porch.
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