St Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin
St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin is a parish church in the Church of England located in Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
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| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | evangelical |
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| Dedication | St. Paul |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Shanklin |
| Diocese | Portsmouth |
| Province | Canterbury |
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| Vicar(s) | the Rev. Philip Allen |
History
It is an ecclesiastical parish taken out of Sandown in 1876. (fn. 17) The church was built 1880–90, and has an apsidal chancel, a nave with aisles of five bays and a stone tower at the north angle.[1]
The church was designed by the architect C. L. Luck.[2]
St. Paul's Church has the bell from HMS Eurydice (1843), which sank off Dunnose Point and is the subject of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Organ
The pipe organ dates from 1882 by the builder Forster and Andrews. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.
References
- 'Parishes: Shanklin', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5 (1912), pp. 195-197. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42072 Date accessed: 14 December 2008.
- The Buildings of England, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Nikolaus Pevsner
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