Description

TF 35 NW CARRINGTON NEW BOLINGBROKE ROAD
Carrington
(east side)

4/3 Church of St. Paul
3.2.67
II

Parish church. 1816, probably by Jeptha Pacey, 1872. Red brick
with yellow brick dressings to chancel, painted ashlar dressings.
Slate roofs. Wide eaves overhang being bracketed to the nave and
forming open pediments at the east and west ends. Chancel with
dogtooth eaves. Pilaster strips to the nave, defining the bays.
Nave, north vestry, and chancel. West nave with wooden octagonal
cupola each side with single pointed arched opening. Cornice
decorated with orbs, domed lead roof. West nave with pointed
arched doorway, door with blind cusped tracery. Over is a
painted band with single painted rectangular plaque above
inscribed '1816'. North nave of 3 bays each bay with single
pointed arched sash with wooden Y tracery. To the left is the
vestry with pointed arched doorway and single fixed light to the
left. Projecting from the north wall of the 1872 chancel is a
lean-to. Canted east chancel with 3 pointed arched lights. The
south chancel with single similar light. East nave with evidence
of a former band. The south nave corresponds to the north.
Interior. Inner porch with doorway with panelled door leading
to the gallery. Panelled west gallery with cast iron Royal arms.
Doorway with double doors under flanked by single fixed lights
with pointed arched glazing bars. Nave with panelled dado.
Moulded brick chancel arch with painted imposts, hood mould and
decorative label stops. Archway to vestry. Panelled pulpit.
This church was one of many built in this area after the Fen
Churches Act of 1816.

Listing NGR: TF3114155241

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641934

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)