St. Paul's Church, Daybrook

Coordinates: 53°00′02″N 1°08′16″W / 53.00064°N 1.13778°W / 53.00064; -1.13778

St. Paul’s Church, Daybrook
Denomination Church of England
Churchmanship High Church
History
Dedication Originally just St. Paul;
also St. Timothy since 1993
Administration
Parish Daybrook
Diocese Southwell and Nottingham
Province York
Clergy
Vicar(s) Revd Sally Baylis

The Church of St. Paul and St. Timothy is a parish church in the Church of England, located on Mansfield Road in Daybrook, Nottingham.[1]

The church is a Grade II* listed building[2] by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as it is a particularly significant building of more than local interest.

History

Inside the spire of St Paul’s Church

St. Paul’s Church was designed by the architect John Loughborough Pearson between 1892 and 1896[3] and its construction began during the May of 1893 under the direction of J W Woodsend.[4] Excluding the spire and tower – which were added in 1897[5] – the church was finished in December 1895[4] and consecrated on 4 February 1896 in honour of Paul the Apostle,[4] who is depicted on the stained glass of the windows.[4] The cost of building the church was £26,000 (equivalent to £2,710,000 in 2015)[6] and was paid for by Sir Charles Seely.[2]

The spire, added in 1897, rises to a height of 150 feet (46 m).[5]

The church was originally dedicated to St. Paul, but in 1993 it was re-dedicated as St. Paul’s and St. Timothy’s when the latter, a daughter church, was opened in Byron Street to replace Cecil Hall (which had long been used as an annexe of St Paul’s).[7]

Stained glass

The stained glass windows are by Clayton and Bell.[2] They illustrate the life and works of Saint Paul.[4]

Bells

The third bell, plus the wheels of the treble and second below it

There are eight bells in the tower cast by Mears and Stainbank in London in 1897.[8]

Organ

The organ was built by Augustus Gern in 1896.[9] It is a two-manual instrument of twenty-four stops situated in the north chancel aisle[9] and its oaken case is delicately carved and traceried.[9]

List of organists
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See also

References

  1. ↑ "Where?". Arnold Churches Together website. Arnold Churches Together. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Historic England. "Church of St Paul (1236096)". National Heritage List for England.
  3. ↑ Buist, J (1898). "St Paul's Church, Mansfield Road, Daybrook, Arnold, c 1898". Picture the Past. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 King, R W; Russell, J (1913). A History of Arnold. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Daybrook - Archaeology". Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  6. ↑ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
  7. ↑ "Daybrook - Introduction". Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Daybrook - Bells". Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  9. 1 2 3 "Daybrook - Organ". Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  10. ↑ 1902 Wright's Directory of Nottingham

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