Description

NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME

SJ8545NW VICTORIA ROAD
644-1/11/57 (North East side)
27/09/72 Church of St Paul

GV II

Parish Church. 1905-8. By R. Scrivener. Red sandstone,
rusticated, coursed and squared, with tiled roofs. NW tower
and spire, nave with 2 aisles, chancel. Perpendicular style.
Tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses and decorative
traceried bands surmounted by octagonal lantern with parapet
and spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes. Doorway in base of tower
with ogee arch and niche containing statue over. In west wall
of nave, giant 7-light west window over canted bay with square
headed 2-light windows. Projecting west porch clasps the south
aisle. Low aisles with small square-headed windows, and high
clerestorey above with 3-light traceried windows. Paired
gables to south aisle chapel. 5-light east window to chancel.
INTERIOR: very simple and open, to the specifications of the
first incumbant. Narrow low aisles form ambulatory, with
arcade of 3 bays with wide 4-centred arches. Decoratve string
course runs below clerestory windows, the bays marked by
shafts carried on angel corbels which carry cambered trusses
and tie beams. Intermediate cambered trusses carried on higher
corbels. No nave pews, instead the chairs specified in the
original brief survive, mounted on low dais. Simple chamfered
chancel arch with hood mould. Altar piece of 1940-45 by the
Wareham guild, adding to the original traceried panelled altar
an oak panelled surround with riddle posts capped by angels
and painted. Encaustic tiles to chancel and nave, possibly by
Minton. Organ in south chancel chapel by William Hill. Pulpit
and lectern taken from Saint Judes, Hanley, also by Scrivener,
and now demolished. Western baptistery with small font on
marble shafts with foliate capitals, 1899, taken from the tin
church which formerly stood on this site. Stained glass: East
window of 1918.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire:
Harmondsworth; The Victoria History of the County of Stafford:
Jenkins J G: A History of Newcastle Under Lyme: Stafford:
1983-: 24).

Listing NGR: SJ8536145922

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585028

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)