Church of St Paul

Details

SHURDINGTON CHURCH ROAD SO 91 NW (north side)

4/135 Church of St Paul

4.7.60

GV II*

Anglican parish church. Early C14, C15, restored and extended 1852. Nave and north aisle: limestone rubble. Chancel and vestry: coursed squared and dressed limestone. Tower: ashlar. Timber-framed porch with ashlar side walls. Nave with north aisle and south porch; chancel with vestry on the north; west tower. Nave south wall: single Decorated 2-light window with a quatrefoil and a scroll-moulded hood; square stone sundial dated 1655, with metal gnomon, upper right; double C19 plank door with C19 flat- chamfered triangular-headed surround and moulded hood within porch. C19 gabled porch with pointed-arched entrance; trefoil-headed windows to the returns and decorative barge boarding. C19 chancel: two trefoil-headed lancets flanking a C19 monument to Samuel Harrison, died 1811 and other members of that family, set into a trefoil-headed niche with ballflower decoration at the top; 2-light Decorated window with quatrefoil at the east end; eroded monument set back within a flat-chamfered surround to the left; trefoil-headed lancet to the north wall. Flat-roofed C19 vestry with 2-light stone-mullioned casement with trefoil-headed lights and foliate spandrels on the east, similar window on the north. The vestry partly obscures a 3-light Perpendicular window lighting the east end of the north aisle. Two-light window with quatrefoil to the north wall of the north aisle; small plank doorway with decorative hinges within a flat-chamfered surround, the whole is set back within a neo-Norman style round-headed surround with tympanum with fish-scale decoration and a hood with lozenge decoration in relief; 3-light almost round-headed window with restored hollow-moulded mullions at the west end. Early C14 two st-age tower: moulded plinth and diagonal buttresses; large stairs projection on the south side with single-light windows; 3-light Perpendicular window on the west; moulded string between the stages; single-light pointed belfry windows with stone louvres; ribbed broached spire with four lucarnes and weather cock. Stepped capping and upright cross finials at the gable ends. Church interior: 3 1/2 bay nave arcade with octagonal piers and capitals and pointed archways; tall pointed flat-chamfered tower arch; pointed double-chamfered chancel arch on flat-chamfered imposts with simple responds. Traces of wall painting above rood beam set into wall over the chancel arch. Panelled wagon roof to the nave with moulded beams with foliate bosses highlighted in gold and red at the intersections; large carved face with beard, possibly a green man, at the centre of one tie beam;, foliate boss at the same---point on the westernmost tie beam. C19 wagon roof to the chancel with stone wall 'posts' below the wall plate, ballflower decoration at the top and angels at the bottom of the wall posts. Early unpanelled wagon roof to the north aisle with a ridge purlin; ribbed stone vault with central bell-rope hole to the tower. Stone flag floor. C14 octagonal stone font at the base of the tower. Late C19-early C20 pews and wooden pulpit. Late C19-early C20 altar table with pierced tracery; ornate stone reredos comprising trefoil-headed niches with foliate decoration behind the altar. C17-early C18 carved oak chair within the- chancel. Three circular wrought iron hanging lights/candlesticks. Hatchment bearing the arms of George III at the base of the tower. C19 stained glass to the chancel and the tower window. (David Verey, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1980)

Listing NGR: SO9211118825

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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

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