Building record 0147400000 - ST PAUL'S CHURCH, WOOBURN

Dimensions - Length 36m, Width 18m.
Plan Form - Rectangular.
Nave, 2 aisles, tower & clock. 6 bells. Curious carved font (B1).
N aisle is Bertie family burial place (B2).
Accounts of restoration, 1869, & state in C17 (B3).
At NGR (B8).
Grade II+. Parish church. Originally late C12, with mid Cl4 N. chapel and chancel, and W. tower added 1442; all heavily restored, internally 1856 by Butterfield, externally 1868-69, Knapped flint, stone dressings, tiled roof to N. chapel, lead roofs to remainder. W. tower, nave, aisles, chancel, N. chapel now used as vestry. C19 off-set buttresses. Re-fenestrated 1868, except for N. chapel, with traceried windows in Decorated style with segmental heads, hoodmoulds and carved head stops. W. Tower is of 3 stages with battlemented parapet, moulded plinth and strings, diagonal buttresses, and pinnacled octagonal stair turret at S.E. corner. Bell chamber has 2-light openings; W. side has single light to second stage, large 3-light window, and moulded doorway. Nave has battlemented clerestory with C19 carved head gargoyles and 4 bays of 2-light windows. Aisles have C19 ornamental stone brackets to moulded eaves, and 3 bays of 3-light windows, the S. aisle with similar E. window and 2-light W. window. N. chapel has C14 traceried windows with arched heads, 2 to N. of 2-lights restored C20 with plastic stone, 3-light E. window partially restored with cement. C19 N. door with shaped Caernarvon arch. Small C19 chimney. Battlemented chancel with 2 bays of 2-light windows to S., and 3-light E. window. Interior: moulded tower arch; late C12 4-bay nave arcades of unmoulded 2-centred arches on cylindrical piers; C19 chancel arch on corbel columns, moulded arch to N. chapel. 2 piscinae in chancel, one cusped and with a shelf, another in N. chapel. Fittings: 2 chests, one C13, the other C17; rood screen by Sir N. Comper 1899, slightly later screen to N. chapel by studio of Comper; other fittings and glass mid C19. Monuments: large wall tablet to Philip Lord Wharton 1695, with Ionic pilasters, flanking scrolls, and open segmental pediment with coat-of-arms; 2 C18 wall tablets; 6 brasses, C15-C17, one to infant Arthur Wharton d. 1614. RCHM I p. 322-323 (B6).
Included in Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register in 2015. Described as in poor condition and priority category D: 'Slow decay; solution agreed but not yet implemented' (B11).