St. Paul's Church, Leamington Spa

Heritage listing

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 geome

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.