St Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin

St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin
St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	evangelical
History
Dedication	St. Paul
Administration
Parish	Shanklin
Diocese	Portsmouth
Province	Canterbury
Clergy
Vicar(s)	the Rev. Philip Allen

Coordinates: 50°37′57″N 01°10′42″W / 50.63250°N 1.17833°W / 50.63250; -1.17833

St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin is a parish church in the Church of England located in Shanklin, Isle of Wight.

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

[1] '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.

[2] The Buildings of England, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Nikolaus Pevsner

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