St Paul, Healey
St Paul, Healey
St Paul's is a Grade II* Decorated parish church on Main Street, Healey, North Yorkshire, in the Diocese of Leeds.
- Location
- Healey, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Healey
- Address
- Healey, Yorkshire, HG4 4LH
- Postcode
- HG4 4LH
- Built
- 1848
- Consecrated
- 10 October 1848
- Architect
- E B Lamb
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Paul
- Diocese
- Leeds
- Parish
- Healey
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Decorated
- Materials
- Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof
- Grid reference
- SE 182 806
- Opening hours
- Always open.
Overview
Historic England records a church of 1848 by E. B. Lamb: nave with south porch, central tower with transepts, and chancel, in Decorated style. The fabric is coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The three-bay nave has offset buttresses with pinnacles and two-light pointed-arch cusped windows; the west bay carries a gabled porch. The tower has offset angle buttresses, a cornice and a stone broach spire with four lucarnes. The short flat-roofed transepts have round chamfered windows; the two-bay chancel is similar to the nave but with single-light windows.
Inside, the crossing has four narrow tower arches and heavy rusticated squinches rising to the tower and, higher, to the spire. The stone altar rail with trefoil cutouts and cast-iron gates, pews, choir stalls, pulpit and font are all by Lamb, as is the timber-framed roof with carved scissor trusses. The north stained-glass window, commissioned by Lamb, bears his cypher and the date 1848; the west window is also probably by him, the east by Sir Robert Frankland-Russell. North Yorkshire Archives hold a sentence of consecration dated 10 October 1848. Pevsner called the crossing "the real Lamb Grand Slam".