St Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin
50°37′57″N 01°10′42″W / 50.63250°N 1.17833°W
| St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin | |
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| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | evangelical |
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| Dedication | St. Paul |
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| Province | Canterbury |
| Diocese | Portsmouth |
| Parish | Shanklin |
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| Vicar(s) | the Rev. Philip Allen |
St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin is a parish church in the Church of England located in Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
History
[edit]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.
During a WW2 enemy air-raid on the town on 17 February 1943, a bomb passed horizontally through the church exploding in the vicarage killing Rev. R B Irons[3] and all the other occupants. The church was re-opened in February 1947. [4]
Organ
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ '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
- ^ "CIVILIAM ROBERT BEATTIE IRONS". Commonwealth War Grave Commission. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- ^ "St Paul Church, Gatten". Historic England. Retrieved 20 November 2024.