Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 June 1996. House.

Church of St Paul

WRENN ID
lunar-remnant-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 June 1996
Type
House
Address
Church of St Paul, Isycoed
OS grid reference
SJ 404 501
Coordinates
53.04486, -2.89039
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Paul is a simple late Georgian style building constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond, featuring light headers that create a chequered effect. It has a slate roof that is hipped at the eastern end. The church has a rectangular plan with a projecting sanctuary at the east end and a slightly projecting tower at the west end. The building is adorned with a dentil eaves cornice, and the tall windows have round heads and stone sills, generally fitted with multipaned cast iron. On the north and south sides, there is a range of five windows, along with a blocked round-headed door and window towards the west end.

The tower features a central arched door and has brick and stone string courses. The penultimate stage of the tower includes louvred bell openings on the north and south faces, and a blind circular opening with a stone surround on the west face, likely intended for a clock. The corners of the tower are topped with damaged stone finials. The top stage of the tower is octagonal, capped with a domed lead roof that is surmounted by a weather vane inscribed with pierced lettering: "LIRE CW 1742."

Inside, a vestibule in the tower leads to the nave, which has a boarded ceiling. The sanctuary is shallow and features a low arch, while a west gallery is supported by simple cast-iron columns. At the west end, there is a baptistry with a floor made of encaustic and glazed tiles, along with a simple octagonal stone font. The furnishings are made of pitch-pine and reflect a later 19th-century character. The organ, made by Bevington & Son of London, is also present, and the glass in the east window was crafted by Swaine Bourne of Birmingham. An arched opening at the northwest end leads to stairs that ascend to the gallery, which contains original box pews with painted numbers.

Local climate

Church of St Paul receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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