Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 August 1996. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Paul
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- watchful-foundation-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1996
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed Gothic building constructed from snecked rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, rock-faced quoins, decorative clay ridge tiles on the chancel, apex crosses, and a Welsh slate roof. The structure includes a nave, a slightly lower chancel, a gabled lower north aisle added in 1911, a cross-gabled south porch, and an unusually positioned belltower at the east-southeast corner. The south façade features cusped lancet windows with hoodmoulds and stops, along with intervening buttresses. The belltower has narrow lights and cusped louvres, while the east and west nave windows display geometric tracery. The north aisle contains perpendicular-style west and wide north windows, with a sill band and plinth.
Inside, the church has five bays open to a simple hammer beam roof. A notable feature is the unusual bayed chancel screen, which consists of slender narrow pointed arches made of painted wood and metal on a stone plinth. The richly painted wood reredos, which includes emblems of the passion and saints under canopies, is part of the 1925 refurbishment. This refurbishment also introduced stained glass in the east window by F C Eden and painted ceiling panels above the altar. The church is surrounded on the east, west, and south by a rubble stone wall, which mostly has saddleback coping to the south and iron rails to the east.
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