Renewal

A long period of ‘restoration’, renewal, extension and alteration took place at St Paul’s from the 1830s through to the early C20. The north transept and steeple were rebuilt in 1865-1868 by R Palgrave on the advice of G E Street. The chancel arcades, chancel roof, east window, new vestry and organ chamber were all reworked by George Gilbert Scott Junior in 1878-1880. Scott Junior returned in 1884, adding the north aisle and creating in the process a ‘hall church’ plan; at the same time he rebuilt the C15 north porch on the new building line. In 1898-1899 G F Bodley created a further vestry, with an annex created in front of the north transept in 1924.

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The Mayor's stall, in the south transept was created in 1872 by J T Wing. The Rood Screen, which crosses the chancel arch, complete with carvings of the Rood, the Virgin Mary, St John the Evangelist, and two angels in prayer, was designed by G F Bodley in 1905.