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

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)