Church of St Paul
Church of St Paul, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1DA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116125
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Paul, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1DA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116125
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Paul, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1DA
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, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1DA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 01332 98612
Details
SP 0198 NW
13/31
WALSALL MB
DARWALL STREET
Church of St Paul
II
Church. 1892-3 by J.L. Pearson. Sandstone rubble with slate roof. Comprises a nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, north and south porches, shallow transepts, a chancel with apsidal end, south apsidal chapel and north organ loft. The windows have pointed heads. The west window is of seven lights with flowing tracery. The aisle west windows are each of six lights with Geometric tracery. The aisles are each of three bays separated by buttresses and have three-light windows with Geometric tracery. The north porch is gabled and has a moulded pointed doorway. The south porch has angle buttresses and was intended to have a tower and spire, which were not executed. The doorway has a depressed pointed arch and is moulded with angle shafts. The transept windows are both of six lights with Geometric tracery. The south chapel has two two-light windows to the south and three to the east. At the east end of the chancel are five two-light windows.
Interior: four-bay nave arcades have tall pointed arches springing from alternate round and octagonal columns with capitals. The fifth bay of each arcade has a compound pier and respond and opens into a transept. The moulded pointed chancel arch has compound responds. Over the nave is a rafter roof, with collars and scissor-braces. Two pointed arches open from the transept into a north chapel, and a further two arches springing from paired columns open from the chapel into the chancel. The chapel is divided by a two-bay arcade on an east/west axis. A two-bay arcade divides the south chapel from the chancel. Chancel ceiling is plastered. The lower part of the
walls is panelled in oak. The chancel contains carved choir stalls. A sandstone font is elaborately carved.
Listing NGR: SP0133298612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219068
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1976), 236
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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