Description

STAFFORD

SJ9222NE LICHFIELD ROAD
590-1/12/54 (North East side)
Church of St Paul

GV II

Church. 1844, by Henry Ward; steeple, 1887, by Robert
Griffiths. Ashlar with fishscale tile roof.
PLAN: cruciform.
EXTERIOR: 2-bay chancel and transepts, south east steeple and
4-bay nave. Coped gables and offset buttresses and diagonal
buttresses. Chancel has 6-light east window and roundel above
with relief of winged ox with human face; 2-light windows to
north and south.
Transepts have 4-light north and south windows with roundels
above, presumably with eagle and winged lion (not visible
because of scaffolding, at survey); 2-light windows to
returns.
Steeple has diagonal buttresses becoming shallow angle
buttresses; sill course with quatrefoil above; 2-light louvred
bell openings, the hoods with head stops; cornice with Tudor
flower and broach spire, the broaches forming plain pinnacles;
weather cock.
Nave has 2-light north and south windows; west facade has
entrance of single order, hood with head stops, flanked by
windows of 2 single-chamfered trefoil-headed lights; 5-light
west window on sill course, roundel above with relief of
winged man and large figure of St Paul to gable.
INTERIOR: hammer beam roofs with pendants and cusping;
double-chamfered crossing arches on round shafts; ashlar west
gallery on 3 arches has ball-flower and arcaded balcony front.
FITTINGS: panelling to sill height; altar has riddel posts;
ex-situ stalls to crossing arcaded fronts; pulpit has tracery
panels; timber lectern in form of eagle with crouched lions to
cruciform base; altar to south transept; octagonal font has
shields in quatrefoils; encaustic tiles.
STAINED GLASS: late C19 and early C20 glass including work by
Hardman and Co, AJ Davies of Bromsgrove, and Smith of St
John's Wood; particularly good C19 east window.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Nairn J: Staffordshire:
London: 1974-: 248).

Listing NGR: SJ9272422707

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585695

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