Description

cy 09 NW BROADCLYST WESTWOOD

6/134 Church of St Paul
-

- II

Church. 1874. Financed and possibly designed by C A W Troyte at a cost of £1,250.
Rubble volcanic trap with slate roofs banded in two colours. Decorated style; 2-
cell church of nave and chancel with south porch, north-east vestry and west
bellcote.
Exterior: all windows under hood moulds and floriated terminals.
West front: moulded kneelers and buttresses flush with west face, 4 light
reticulated west window, bellcote with 2 off-sets and a single, chamfered bell
opening, small trefoil set between window and bellcote.
South front: porch to extreme west end, entrance arch under hood mould and
terminals, and semi-detached shafts with bell capitals; two 2 light windows to nave
with spiky decorated tracery; east end of nave marked by buttress (with 2 off-sets)
under kneeled and coped gable. Chancel set well back with two 1 light trefoil-
headed windows. 3 light Decorated east window. North east vestry with east door
and to the north an end stack with paired, octagonal, crenellated caps. Three 2
light Decorated windows to north of nave.
Interior: nave with 3 main bays, each subdivided, principals (arch braces and
collars) resting on moulded stone corbels. Chancel roof with canted common rafters.
Chancel arch of 2 orders, with foliated corbels, the responds plain. All windows
with deep reveals. Reredos: arcade (3:5:3) of stone and polished limestone trefoil-
headed arches. Font: stone, octagonal. Pulpit: stone, polygonal and approached
from behind.

Listing NGR: SY0171298965

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592679

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