Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034980
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034980
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, CHURCH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Nuneaton and Bedworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 33349 91403
Details
NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH CHURCH ROAD SP39SW (West side) Stockingford 1/43 Church of St. Paul - II
Church. 1822-1823 by J. Russell for the Commissioners for Building Churches. Chancel added 1897 by G.B. Vialls. Flemish bond brick with some stone dressings. Graduated slate roof has deep plastered eaves and pediment gables with widely-spaced modillions. Chancel has blue brick plinth and stone dressings. Ridge tile cresting and stone-coped gable parapet with moulded kneelers and finial. Nave, chancel, west tower, east vestries. Simple classical style; Gothic Revival chancel. Large 4-bay nave, small 3-bay chancel. Chancel has buttresses flush with east wall. 3-light east window has bar tracery, hood mould and head stops. Small lancet opening above. Chancel roof breaks into nave pediment. Pediment has triangular sunk panels and louvred round-arched opening with projecting surround. Nave and remainder of-church have round-arched openings with stone sills set in blank arches. 2-light windows have painted wood tracery of the 'Venetian' type, with round-arched lights and a circle; sunk panels in brickwork below. Nave windows have 2 transoms and stone band at springing level. North-east vestry of 2 bays has 4-panelled door with traceried fanlight and blocked window. South-east vestry of one bay has part-glazed round-arched door, with sunk panel above. Each vestry has window with one transom to return side, moulded brick cornice and embattled parapet. West front has blind arches. Tower of 3 stages cuts into nave pediment. Stone string courses. Round-arched flush 4-panelled double-leaf doors. Return sides have blind openings, largely hidden by lean-to addition to north. Second stage has louvred openings. Third stage has slightly-projecting angle piers with plain stone capitals. Round openings with stone frames have clock faces to north and south, and pierced painted infill to west. Moulded stone cornice and balustrade. Interior is plastered. Spacious nave has coved and panelled ceiling with flat moulded ribs. West gallery has painted fielded panelled front and curved ends, on chamfered posts. Chamfered stone Tudor chancel arch of 1897 has hood mould with foliage stops. Chancel has 3-bay king post roof. Fittings: late C19 pews, altar rails and organ case. Font of 1883. Octagonal carved wood pulpit dated 1906 has blind Gothic tracery. Late C19/early C20 reredos. Stained glass: early C20 east window. (VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, pp165; Buildings of England: Warwickshire: pp404; Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire 1894; pp195)
Listing NGR: SP3334991403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308581
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 165
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 404
Kellys Directory in Warwickshire, (1894), 195
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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