Parish Church of St Paul. is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Church.
Parish Church of St Paul.
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-jade-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1975
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St Paul., Grangetown
- OS grid reference
- ST 177 748
- Coordinates
- 51.46621, -3.18482
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Paul is a church built in the Geometrical Decorated style. It is constructed from grey Pennant stone, featuring dressings and banding of pink sandstone and Portland cement with pink pebble aggregate. The building has a continuous tiled roof covering the nave and chancel, and includes a nave, chancel, aisles, and the base of an uncompleted tower.
The west front is notable for its two polygonal turrets topped with pyramidal roofs, which sit above arcading and niches intended for statues that were never executed. Above a gabled tripartite doorway, which has grey shafts supporting the arches, is a four-light Decorated window. The gable is flanked by flushwork. The side elevations consist of five cross-gabled bays, each with tall two-light windows featuring quatrefoils, oculi in the gables, and lancets at the east and west aisle returns. The east window contains five lights, with a mandorla depicted above in the gable apex. The chancel elevations are divided into three bays, featuring three three-light windows on the north side and two three-light windows on the south side, along with the stump of the uncompleted tower that has battered angle buttresses and a tall arcaded panel. A vestry is located to the south of the chancel.
Inside, the church has a lofty five-bay nave supported by tall slender piers, and the chancel has three bays at the same height. The nave and chancel feature boarded roofs with a trefoil section, tie-beams, and arch-braces resting on pointed corbels, while the aisles have boarded ceilings. The chancel is fitted with panelled wood furnishings, including a wooden pulpit adorned with sculpted figures and choir stalls designed by Coates Carter. The east window serves as a war memorial, with stained glass depicting the theme of crucifixion. At the base of the window, there are panels illustrating a trench scene, artillery, a seaplane, and a merchant ship, created by Burlison & Grylls in 1920.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Paul. sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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