Weight: 980 lbs Diameter: 36.5" Bell 1 of 8
Founded by John Warner & Sons 1881
Dove Bell ID: 3466 Tower ID: 12856 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
St Paul Hounslow Heath
Diocese of London
Church, 623245
http://www.stpaulshw.org.ukOverview
Grid reference: TQ 125 759
By W.G. Habershon and A.R. Pite, 1873-74, the parish having been formed from part of Heston in 1871. The gift of £1,600 from W.H. Taylor of Hounslow towards the cost of the building is recorded on a stone built into the south-east corner of the tower, in addition to his gift of the site of the church and Vicarage.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Wide aisled nave of four bays, transepts leading off the wider east bays, two-bay chancel with organ chamber and choir vestry to the south and priest's vestry on the north. South-west tower and spire.
Footprint of Church buildings: 582 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
By W.G. Habershon and A.R. Pite, 1873-74, the parish having been formed from part of Heston in 1871. The gift of £1,600 from W.H. Taylor of Hounslow towards the cost of the building is recorded on a stone built into the south-east corner of the tower, in addition to his gift of the site of the church and Vicarage.
Exterior Description
The most notable thing about the exterior is the tower and spire at the south-west corner. The tower is of four storeys with pairs of buttresses at the corners set off at each level until they are dispensed with at the belfry stage. The stages are divided by stringcourses except for the lowest. The ground floor contains the porch of the main door of the church over which is a moulded two-centred arch and dripstone. The hinges and the lamp above are ironwork typical of the period. The next stage of the tower has two lancet lights in each face, then there is the clock face and finally the two-light traceried opening for the belfry stage. There is no parapet, although there are four gargoyles at this level, and the broach spire rises abruptly from the walls of the tower. It is very simple, embellished only with two-light lucarnes reflecting the belfry openings.
Between the tower and the transept only two bays of the nave are visible on the south side of the church. The aisle has paired windows with Decorated tracery and the clerestory of the nave has small openings of alternate trefoils and quatrefoils set in circular frames. The bays of the aisle are divided by buttresses and those of the clerestory by flat projections. The south wall of the transept has a wide Decorated window with five traceried lights in the lower part and a large circle containing and surrounded by trefoils and quatrefoils in the upper part. The window is wide for its height. A small trefoil occupies the very point of the gable and the wall is surmounted by a celtic cross within a circle. The lower part of the transept is lit by four lancet windows with. trefoils in the heads. Clasping buttresses support the corners. In the angle. between the transept and the chancel is a porch sheltering the choir door.
The east wall of the chancel is plain but far the large east window of five lights with a wheel window in the head. The only other decoration is a group of three little lancets in the point of the gable which tie in with a similar group of five in the same position on the wall of the nave above the chancel ridge. The side walls of the chancel have two—light windows of the same type which appear all through this building. In the angle between the chancel and the north transept is the vicar's vestry with a door to the outside and a simple three-light window in the east wall. The north transept and north wall of the nave are identical with the south side of the church.
The west wall of the nave has a projecting porch before the west door and above this is a rose window of twelve sections set in an ashlar surface within a skimpily detailed arch. The gable above has a group of five lancets as elsewhere. All the walls of the church are of ragstone with Bath stone dressings and window surrounds, and the effect of the building is not unattractive because of the care of the massing of parts to form a whole and the meticulous attention to detail (for example, the gargoyles on the tower and the gablets on the kneelers of the gables all round the church.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
The window of the south aisle is of two lights and is a memorial to the first vicar of the parish, Revd. A.B. Bull (Vicar 1869- 1911).
Stained Glass
Two two-light windows in the south aisle and one single light window are all by the same designer. The single window represents St. Barbara the patron saint of the Gunners (and gunners in general) and is inscribed to the Unknown Gunners of both wars.
Stained Glass
1893
The large window in the south transept has figures in the main lights of Faith, Hope, Christ, Charity and Truth. It is a memorial dated 1893 and is sentimental. In the tracery above are angels, flowers and crowns.
Stained Glass
The south chancel window, of 1880 sinews St. Luke and St John with their symbols below and the companion window on the north has St. Matthew and St. Mark (1883).
Stained Glass
1883
Stained Glass
The north transept window was presented in 1905 in memory of a young Fusilier, and is designed accordingly.
Stained Glass
Beneath the last window are four small windows showing Offa, Edmund, Alfred and Olaf.
Stained Glass
1957
The eastern window of the north aisle has two lights with St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne and St. Lucy of Syracuse. The window was given by the Sunday. School in 1957.
Interior
Interior Description
The nave arcades are supported on round pillars with foliated capitals of remarkable stylized leaves. Corbels in the aisles are similarly decorated. Above the pillars in the nave, small columns standing on stone brackets support the roof timbers. Where the arches opening into the transepts do not permit this, the beams are borne on corbels carved as angels. The slightly odd feature of the church outside where both south door and west door are given equal prominence is resolved within, for the west door is surrounded with a stone frontispiece consisting of half pillars supporting a lintel decorated with trefoils in roundels. This has a crenellated top broken by a triangular crocketted gable which contains a circle within a trefoil. The whole thing is liberally sprinkled with ball-flower ornaments. The font formerly stood inside the south-west door, but has been moved to a position in the south aisle, about halfway down.
The short transepts open into the nave through wide arches which are carried on separate pillars from the nave arcades, the two piers being tied together by the architraves. The north transept is arranged as a chapel and the south is separated from the body of the church by a wooden screen and roof and forms the choir vestry. The chancel has a wide arch from the nave which is carried on small attached columns on corbels carved with realistic fillies and passion flowers. The organ occupies an arch on the south side while the door to the priest's vestry is in this position on the north. The wide east window is filled with glass depicting scenes from the life and teaching of St. Paul.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
The Altar is a plain wooden table of modern design standing free of the east wall.
Reredos
The reredos covers all the part of the cast wall of the chancel below window sill level and consists of continuous band of trefoils which is crenellated in the central section where it is also supported on columns; the panels are all empty and surely were intended to hold sculptured reliefs.
Pulpit
The pulpit is a strange structure; two virtually unrelated parts, the inner consisting of the platform supported on eight little Ionic columns and the outer consisting of the panels and top rail supported at each corner on Corinthinian columns. The front panel has a gilt cross and a side panel a Saint.
Font (object)
The Font is a stone octagon with trefoils and quatrofoils alternating in the side panels of the bowl.
Lectern
The Lectern is a brass eagle with a more-than usually streamlined head.
Organ (object)
The organ is a two-manual instrument by a local firm.
Bells
Weight: 392 lbs Diameter: 26" Bell 2 of 8
Founded by John Warner & Sons 1881
Dove Bell ID: 25602 Tower ID: 12856 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 420 lbs Diameter: 27" Bell 3 of 8
Founded by John Warner & Sons 1881
Dove Bell ID: 25603 Tower ID: 12856 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 448 lbs Diameter: 28" Bell 4 of 8
Founded by John Warner & Sons 1881
Dove Bell ID: 25604 Tower ID: 12856 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 504 lbs Diameter: 29" Bell 5 of 8
Founded by John Warner & Sons 1881
Dove Bell ID: 25605 Tower ID: 12856 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 560 lbs Diameter: 30" Bell 6 of 8
Founded by John Warner & Sons 1881
Dove Bell ID: 25606 Tower ID: 12856 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 644 lbs Diameter: 31" Bell 7 of 8
Founded by John Warner & Sons 1881
Dove Bell ID: 25607 Tower ID: 12856 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 756 lbs Diameter: 33" Bell 8 of 8
Founded by John Warner & Sons 1881
Dove Bell ID: 25608 Tower ID: 12856 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TQ 125 759
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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