CHURCH OF ST PAUL

CHURCH OF ST PAUL, LEICESTER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381385
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PAUL, LEICESTER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381385
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PAUL, LEICESTER STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PAUL, LEICESTER STREET

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 32251 66296

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET 1208-1/4/243 (South side) Church of St Paul

GV II

Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile roof. STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English. PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts, 2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces street with entrance to north side. EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion cornice. Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration; steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base. West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head. Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered, pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has 5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands and quatrefoil to gable. INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches

above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with roll-moulding to head. Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of roll-moulding on corbel capitals. Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof. Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern. Some stained glass. Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'. HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv). Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).

Listing NGR: SP3225166296

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 334

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.