Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, LICHFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298174
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, LICHFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298174
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, LICHFIELD 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, LICHFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92724 22707
Details
STAFFORD
SJ9222NE LICHFIELD ROAD 590-1/12/54 (North East side) Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1844, by Henry Ward; steeple, 1887, by Robert Griffiths. Ashlar with fishscale tile roof. PLAN: cruciform. EXTERIOR: 2-bay chancel and transepts, south east steeple and 4-bay nave. Coped gables and offset buttresses and diagonal buttresses. Chancel has 6-light east window and roundel above with relief of winged ox with human face; 2-light windows to north and south. Transepts have 4-light north and south windows with roundels above, presumably with eagle and winged lion (not visible because of scaffolding, at survey); 2-light windows to returns. Steeple has diagonal buttresses becoming shallow angle buttresses; sill course with quatrefoil above; 2-light louvred bell openings, the hoods with head stops; cornice with Tudor flower and broach spire, the broaches forming plain pinnacles; weather cock. Nave has 2-light north and south windows; west facade has entrance of single order, hood with head stops, flanked by windows of 2 single-chamfered trefoil-headed lights; 5-light west window on sill course, roundel above with relief of winged man and large figure of St Paul to gable. INTERIOR: hammer beam roofs with pendants and cusping; double-chamfered crossing arches on round shafts; ashlar west gallery on 3 arches has ball-flower and arcaded balcony front. FITTINGS: panelling to sill height; altar has riddel posts; ex-situ stalls to crossing arcaded fronts; pulpit has tracery panels; timber lectern in form of eagle with crouched lions to cruciform base; altar to south transept; octagonal font has shields in quatrefoils; encaustic tiles. STAINED GLASS: late C19 and early C20 glass including work by Hardman and Co, AJ Davies of Bromsgrove, and Smith of St John's Wood; particularly good C19 east window. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Nairn J: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 248).
Listing NGR: SJ9272422707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383999
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 248
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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