Description

SX 05 SW ST AUSTELL CHURCH LANE, Charlestown
(East side (Off))
868/9/10048
Church of St Paul

GV II

Parish church. Consecrated 1851 by Henry Philpotts, Bishop of Exeter; designed by Christopher Eales, his only church design; flat-roofed choir vestry and sacristy added in 1964, spire added in 1971. Local rubble with granite dressings; steep dry Delabole slate roofs with coped gable ends and bracketed cornices; stone stack above NE vestry; glass reinforced plastic broach spire. STYLE: Early Gothic. PLAN: nave, crossing with transepts and chancel, the lofty nave lit by clerestory windows above low and narrow N and S lean-to aisles; N porch; tower at Wend of north aisle, original vestry in NE angle plus vestry and sacristy added to SE angle. EXTERIOR: 2-tier weathered buttresses dividing bays; simple lancets (4 bays) to aisles and clerestory; ordered openings with nook shafts and hoodmoulds to E and Wends: pointed W doorway with paired lights over and blind gable oculus; trio of lancets to E end with wheel window to gable. Each transept with paired north and south lancets with nook shafts and gable oculae. 3-stage tower with single lancets to lower stage, trefoils to 2nd stage and louvered lancets to paired recessed panels to bell stage. Pointed-arched ordered doorways with nook shafts. INTERIOR: deliberately simple and restrained plastered interior with 4 bays of pointed stone arches on round piers to the nave/aisles; taller arch to crossing and to chancel and lower N and S arches. The roof is arch braced with crown posts of 4 principal bays with trusses carried on corbels set on tall shafts on clerestory sill strings plus secondary intermediate trusses carried on corbels above clerestory windows; similar crossing and chancel roofs but with principal trusses only. The aisles have unequal arch bracing to carry the lean-to roofs. FITTINGS: square-ended open-panelled pews; rood beam on corbels with rood; octagonal moulded granite font; octagonal oak pulpit of 1933, given by the Mothers' Union. MONUMENTS: some late C19 and early C20wall monuments to Luke, Yawdrey, Woolcock and Stephens families. GLASS: late C19 coloured memorial glass to S aisle to Luke, Higman, Hest, Yawdrey and Bele families. A well-articulated design, reflecting the early influence of the Ecclesiological movement. (St Paul's PCC: The Parish Church of St Paul, Charlestown: Charlestown).

Listing NGR: SX0363852108

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Paul's Church, Charlestown at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q65041983

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