St Paul Without The Walls

chancel together with a S aisle and chapel: C13 work is clearly evident in what is now the arcade between the N aisle and nave.

The design of the Scott tracery in the N wall matches the C14 tracery of the windows shown in a drawing of 1847.

At the NW corner is a short tower with a moulded N doorway which has a large, chequered stepped buttress alongside and a medieval quatrefoil window and plain slit window below a stringcourse.

The two windows on the S wall of the chancel have a small, medieval priest's door between them.

The chancel is also top-lit by a two-light dormer window with tile-hung sides, matching the C19 clerestory.

INTERIOR: The medieval N arcade has three round piers with moulded capitals and plain, single-chamfered pointed arches.

The tower has C13 chamfered arches to its E and S faces with cushion bar stops below the respond capitals.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Colourful mosaic and opus sectile panels of the Evangelists flank the E window and tiles and mosaic below extend round the walls of the sanctuary.

A trefoil-headed piscina, probably C13, is housed in the N wall.

The font is probably Scott's and has a square bowl decorated with carved roundels on a circular stem with dark marble corner shafts.

The windows contain several C19 and early C20 stained glass windows, one probably by Hardman in the chancel: one in the s aisle is signed by A L Moore.

Monuments include a 1531/2 brass to George Wyndbourne and his wife.

Over the NW doorway is a marble bust and escutcheons from the monument to Sir Edward Master set up in St Michael's Chapel in the cathedral.

There are several other minor wall monuments.

HISTORY: The structural history of St Paul's is visible back to the C13.

Often criticised for over-restoration, his work was in fact usually respectful of medieval buildings, while his new churches generally have a harmonious quality which derived its character from the architecture of the late C13 or early C14.

He also designed a number of very important secular buildings, for example the Albert Memorial and the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras.

At St Paul's he was careful to preserve medieval work where possible leaving the old arcade with its time-worn surfaces and following the existing medieval work in the design of the new.

Historic photographs in the National Monuments Record, Swindon.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St Paul without the Walls, Canterbury, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * It has medieval work dating back to the C13 in the tower and N aisle. * It was enlarged by a leading C19 church architect in a manner respectful of the medieval fabric. * It has a number of fixtures of interest.