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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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 August 1996
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Gothic. Of snecked rock faced sandstone, with ashlar dressings, rock faced quoins, decorative clay ridge tiles to chancel, apex crosses and Welsh slate roof. Comprises nave, slightly lower chancel, gabled lower N aisle added 1911, cross gabled S porch, belltower unusually at ESE corner. S frontage has cusped lancets with hoodmoulds and stops and intervening buttresses; belltower has narrow lights and cusped louvres; E and W nave windows have geometric tracery; N aisle has perp W and wide N windows; sillband and plinth. Surrounded E W and S by rubble stone wall with mostly saddleback coping to S and iron rails to E.

Of 5 bays open to simple hammer beam shape roof. Main interest is unusual bayed chancel screen of slender narrow pointed arches of painted wood and metal on stone plinth and richly painted wood reredos with emblems of the passion and saints under canopies, part of the 1925 refurbishment which also includes stained glass in E window by F C Eden and painted ceiling panels above altar.

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