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PERCY STREET 1. 5330 (East Side) Church of St Paul NU 1813 SE 1/85 20.2.52. B 2. 1846 by Anthony Salvin for the 3rd Duke of Northumberland in decorated style. Large stone built church. Five bay aisled rave with a lower 2 bay aisled chancel and an embattled west tower with diagonal buttresses. Tower of 4 stages: entrance with pointed arch of 2 orders, a window above with decorated tracery, a clock on 3rd stage. Decorated tracery to aisle and clerestory windows and to large east window. Small rose at east end of nave. Projecting north porch with pointed arch of 2 orders and shallow painted niches with cusped heads in spandrels; an octopartite vault inside carried on head corbels. Vestries at south-east end. The interior has slender, keeled shafts to feinted arcades with label stops. Nave has an octopartite wooden vault, the chancel an arch braced collar beam roof. Splendid stained glass in east window designed by John Dyce and made by Ainmiller of Munich 1856. Monument to 3rd Duke (died 1847) by J.E. Carew. Oak pews with blind tracery in front and carved ends.

The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle acquired the building and St Paul’s was dedicated by Bishop Hugh Lindsay on 11th December 1982 for use by the Roman Catholic community.  Artefacts including the Lady Altar and statue, the reredos depicting the Northern saints, and the Stations of the Cross transferred to St Paul’s from the former Catholic church building.  The latter is now converted into the Bailiffgate Museum.

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From "The Art Journal - llustrated catalogue of the industry of all nations"

A monument has recently been placed in the new Church of St Paul Alnwick which merits particular notice from the successful manner in which it has been treated by the sculp style of mediæval altar tombs without sacrificing tor Mr Carew who has adopted the prevailing modern realities The tomb is to the memory of the late Duke of Northumberland whose effigy is clothed in the robes of the Garter his feet resting on the lion adopted as the crest of his noble house the shields of the various members of the family appearing round the base of the tomb which is surrounded by a Gothic railing The form and style of the fifteenth century is thus the prevailing idea but the costume is truthful and modern the proof that a proper direction of thought can overattitude of the figure easy and graceful and a come many of the so called difficulties which beset statue memorials of mo lern men