Directory
Yate
- Church name:
- St Paul
- Parish Priest:
- Rev James Williams
- Address:
- Sundridge Park, Yate, Bristol BS37 4EP
- County:
- South Gloucestershire
- Parish date:
- (1981)
- Served from:
- Chipping Sodbury
- Deanery:
- Bristol East
History of Parish:
The rapid growth of Yate meant that by the late 1970s the Mass centre at St.Paul’s school was no longer adequate, and a new church was planned adjoining the school. Designed by the architects Ivor Day O’Brien Stephens, it is a multipurpose building capable as a single hall of accommodating a congregation of 400, but adaptable as a smaller church and a parish hall. Its design is based on A-frame structures, with exposed structural steel with emphasis on sloping roofs (clad in blue black slates) which have earned it the soubriquet of ‘St.Paul-without-the-Walls’. The interior makes ingenious use of direct and indirect lighting with the altar the focal point of illumination. With the school the church makes an attractive enclave set back from the road. It was opened in 1981.
Extract from 'The Diocese of Clifton 1850 – 2000' by Rev Dr J A Harding the Diocesan Archivist, available from the 'Publications' page of this site.
- Sunday Mass:
- 11.00 am
- Holy Days:
- 9.30 am
- Parish website
