Description

NORTH SUNDERLAND MAIN STREET
NU 23 SW
(South side)
9/183 Church of St. Paul
22.12.69
GV II
Parish church. 1834 by Anthony Salvin. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Nave
with bellcote and apsidal chancel. Romanesque style. West door has columns
with cushion capitals and multi-moulded arch. Flanking one-light windows and
string course rising over door and windows. Round-headed window over door
flanked by trapezoidal recesses with colonettes at sides.
4-bay nave has one-light round-headed windows and string course which rises
over each window. Buttresses between each bay.
Chancel has priest's door with roll-moulded arch and cushion capitals, similar
windows and corbel table.
Gabled roof and gabled double bellcote with roll-moulded arches and cushion
capitals
Interior: Canted, plastered barrel-vaulted nave ceiling and round barrel-
vaulted chancel ceiling. Screen and elaborate octagonal pulpit of 1915 with
twisted Ionic colonettes and figures of saints in niches.

Listing NGR: NU2120431453

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26527865

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