St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin
| St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin | |
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| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | evangelical |
| History | |
| Dedication | St. Paul |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Shanklin |
| Diocese | Portsmouth |
| Province | Canterbury |
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| Vicar(s) | the Rev. Philip Allen |
Coordinates: 50°37′57″N 01°10′42″W / 50.63250°N 1.17833°W
St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin is a parish church in the Church of England located in Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
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.
The church was designed by the architect C. L. Luck.
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.
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.
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