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Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church road sign in the rain, 4925 Cambie St. at 33rd Ave., near Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, Canada.
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The chairs in the church have been grouped around small tables to allow groups of people to talk together – we are running the Alpha course each week in church until Easter.
Room With A View has chosen Surrounded as today's topic for the Our Daily Challenge group.
I'm leading this session of the Alpha Course at our church. It's been an awesome privilege and each Tuesday the church has been packed with cynics, skeptics and seekers. The whole experience has taken me out of my comfort zone.
Our Holy Spirit weekend kicks off on the 30th of October with takeaway food and a talk on "Who is the Holy Spirit?". Usually we have a DVD presentation but Ive decided to deliver the talk myself and include an interview with our worship leader Glenda (who I went to school with).
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
Another church sign. This one painted blue. Same as the other one. Also says "Welcome to St Paul's Church". Time's of services.
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
Sign - Welcome to St Paul's Church. Time's of services.
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
One of the church door's.
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
A clear answer at last, from Gatwick Airport (which seems to me to be proof that there can be no god in itself!)
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
Spire of the church.
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
Spire of the church.
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
Rose window, looking up.
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
Big banner for The Alpha Course.
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
Spire of the church.
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
Spire of the church.
Georgian buildings on Dale Street in Leamington Spa.
An Alpha church. The rest was modern and wasn't interested in it. But took this old section of it.
It is the Dale Street Methodist Church. They do the Alpha course there.
To those who regularly attend or are associated with The Methodist Church, Dale Street, Royal Leamington Spa, the building is simply and fondly known as ‘Dale Street’.
If you are visiting or coming along to Dale Street for the first time you will immediately have noticed that some parts of the building are relatively modern and other parts are much older. From this simple observation you will have gathered that Dale Street has been subjected to a certain amount of change during its history.
However, while its history could be said to begin with the founding of the Methodist Church by John Wesley in 1738, if in a short review such as this it is necessary to focus more on Leamington Spa itself, then we will discover that Dale Street was not the Wesleyan Methodists’ original meeting place in this part of town. The original chapel on the present site was, in fact, built to replace an earlier one in Portland Street just a short distance away, but by the 1860s that chapel had run into debt and so plans were drawn up to convert it into a school and a site for a new ‘circuit’ chapel and schoolroom was sought.
Dale Street Church 1870-1971
Old Dale Street Church 1870-1971
The site chosen was that of Cavendish Cottage in Dale Street - these premises being offered for the purpose by a Mr Hyde and Mrs Holy. The dwelling was pulled down sometime after 1867 in order to make way for the original church buildings which included a chapel capable of seating thirteen hundred people. This was opened in June 1870.
In 1932 Methodist Union took place when the Primitive, United and Wesleyan Methodist churches amalgamated to become the Methodist Church, and from then on there was a close association between the Warwick Street United Methodist Church and Dale Street who found themselves in the same circuit. By 1966 members of both churches realised it was not realistic to pay for the upkeep of both churches when one was more than capable of accommodating the combined congregations. It was therefore decided to amalgamate. However, to the regular worshippers of those days there was an awareness that they still appeared to be two separate congregations meeting in one single church, and a sense of unity seemed hard to achieve. It was perceived that this, in part, was due to the sheer size of the chapel and so the positive decision was made to build a new church to meet the needs of the then present day congregation, and the last service took place in the old chapel in May 1971. Whilst demolition was underway and the new church was being built, services were held in the much smaller church hall and worshipping together in this more intimate space began to create the greater sense of unity that was desired, and all looked forward to moving together into the new church which we have today, and which seats around two-hundred and fifty. The new church was opened in September 1972.
The modern part of the building therefore contains the ‘new’ church and community room and was built specifically to integrate with the older part which still accommodates the hall, a number of meeting rooms, and a warden’s cottage.
We are having an Alpha course at St Andrew's Church this morning. The twelve week course is usually held for about an hour once a week, often in the evening. We held one at church as the Sunday morning service for twelve weeks a few years ago. It was well received.
This is the Church of St Paul on Leicester Street in Leamington Spa.
It is one of the churches in Warwickshire being used for The Alpha Course.
It is a Grade II listed building.
Church of St Paul, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LEICESTER STREET
1208-1/4/243 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church. 1873-84 with later additions and alterations including
those of c1980. By John Cundall of Leamington. Reddish-brown
brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings and cement-tile
roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 4-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 3-stage north
tower and steeple to second bay, north and south transepts,
2-bay chancel with south chapel, vestry and church rooms and
north office and youth rooms. North side of church faces
street with entrance to north side.
EXTERIOR: double-chamfered plinth. Nave has buttresses with
off-sets and pinnacles between bays; 3 cusped lancets to each
bay with continuous chamfered sill band and continuous
hoodmould. Clerestory has pair of 2-light windows with plate
tracery to each bay and continuous hoodmould, modillion
cornice.
Tower: clasping buttresses with off-sets to 2 stages; entrance
to first stage, double plank doors in Caernarvon arched
surround within solid pointed-arched gable with three orders
of shafts with foliate capitals and roll-moulding above; stair
turret to west to lower stage; first-stage band; to second
stage are 2 slit lancets to north; second-stage band; 2-light
tall belfry windows to each side with 2 orders of arches on
slender columns with hoodmoulds; band with trefoil decoration;
steeple has further gabled belfry openings to base.
West end: plate-glass double doors in C20 extension give
access to corridor and west end, west end has a pointed-arched
opening with hoodmould; above a 5-light window with
geometrical-type tracery to head.
Transepts: to north a plank door in double-chamfered,
pointed-arched surround, with quatrefoil to arch; to both ends
a circular window with geometrical-type tracery, band to
gable; to north transept, east side a steeple. East end has
5-light window with geometrical-type tracery to head, bands
and quatrefoil to gable.
INTERIOR: one and a half bays to west end of nave have balcony
and, with aisles, are partitioned-off below to form church
rooms. Pointed-arched, double-chamfered arcade with inner
order of roll-moulding on red granite columns with
water-holding bases and foliate capitals, gault brick arches
above and continuous hoodmould. Windows have chamfered
surrounds; clerestory windows have single order of shafts with
roll-moulding to head.
Nave has scissor-braced roof. Transepts have pierced
balconies, the area below which is now partly blocked to form
church rooms, vestry etc.; crossing has tall, wide
double-chamfered arches on square piers with inner order of
roll-moulding on corbel capitals.
Chancel: aisle to north formerly contained organ, with
pointed-arched opening, now blocked; to south the Lady chapel
has pierced screen; to east end a 7-bay wall arcade has
slender shafts and roll-moulding to head; hammer-beam roof.
Stone pulpit has column clusters below and column shafts with
foliate capitals to body. Similar, lower lectern.
Some stained glass.
Inscription to foundation stone at base of north transept: 'TO
THE GLORY OF GOD / THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF/ S. PAUL'S CHURCH
WAS LAID BY / WILLIAM WILLES ESQ.RE 15TH MAY 1873'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Cundall was also architect of Leamington
Spa Town Hall, Parade (qv).
Forms an interesting architectural group with St Paul's
Parochial Rooms and Church House (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
Another church door. Maybe the main one.
Ici, ce montage, fait en 2014, nous montre, à l'aide, d'une photo de ma Femme prise vers la fin de 2006, que j'ai annexé au groupe de 2014, car j'ai tend voulu voir ma Femme réaliser son rêve de présider son propre groupe du Parcours Alpha.
Photo chosen by Sail Canada for feature story.
Sail East, 420 North Americans and Laser Canadians at the SMSC Bay Wind Regatta
roast chicken by Adeline, from Alpha course night. photo by Cath. Beholdr. a blog of peculiar beauty.