St Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin Explained

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St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin
Dedication:	St. Paul
Denomination:	Church of England
Churchmanship:	evangelical
Parish:	Shanklin
Diocese:	Portsmouth
Province:	Canterbury
Vicar:	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

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.

Notes and References

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