Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297450
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297450
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, VICTORIA 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, VICTORIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85361 45922
Details
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
SJ8545NW VICTORIA ROAD 644-1/11/57 (North East side) 27/09/72 Church of St Paul
GV II
Parish Church. 1905-8. By R. Scrivener. Red sandstone, rusticated, coursed and squared, with tiled roofs. NW tower and spire, nave with 2 aisles, chancel. Perpendicular style. Tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses and decorative traceried bands surmounted by octagonal lantern with parapet and spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes. Doorway in base of tower with ogee arch and niche containing statue over. In west wall of nave, giant 7-light west window over canted bay with square headed 2-light windows. Projecting west porch clasps the south aisle. Low aisles with small square-headed windows, and high clerestorey above with 3-light traceried windows. Paired gables to south aisle chapel. 5-light east window to chancel. INTERIOR: very simple and open, to the specifications of the first incumbant. Narrow low aisles form ambulatory, with arcade of 3 bays with wide 4-centred arches. Decoratve string course runs below clerestory windows, the bays marked by shafts carried on angel corbels which carry cambered trusses and tie beams. Intermediate cambered trusses carried on higher corbels. No nave pews, instead the chairs specified in the original brief survive, mounted on low dais. Simple chamfered chancel arch with hood mould. Altar piece of 1940-45 by the Wareham guild, adding to the original traceried panelled altar an oak panelled surround with riddle posts capped by angels and painted. Encaustic tiles to chancel and nave, possibly by Minton. Organ in south chancel chapel by William Hill. Pulpit and lectern taken from Saint Judes, Hanley, also by Scrivener, and now demolished. Western baptistery with small font on marble shafts with foliate capitals, 1899, taken from the tin church which formerly stood on this site. Stained glass: East window of 1918. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: Harmondsworth; The Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Jenkins J G: A History of Newcastle Under Lyme: Stafford: 1983-: 24).
Listing NGR: SJ8536145922
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385973
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1908)
Jenkins, J G, A History of Newcastle Under Lyme, (1983), 24
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)
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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