ST PAULINUS, NEW OLLERTON
St Paulinus, New Ollerton is a Grade II listed buidling, achieving the status on 28 April 1986.
New Ollerton village was created in the mid-1920s to serve the new Ollerton pit. In 1931 the church of St Paulinus was built by Naylor, Sale, and Woore for the Butterley Company colliery, to serve the miners and their families. It is placed, picturesquely, in the centre of a roundabout in the heart of the ‘model village’. In style the church is neo-Romanesque but the materials used, brick, ashlar, and concrete, with a tiled roof, give the building a very Italianate feel. The doors have remarkable scrolled iron and bronze furniture, and inside is a beautiful king post roof with double tie beams and a coved wall plate with a carved interlace pattern. The miners’ window, above the main entrance in the west wall, consists of three stained glass windows in commemoration of the links with the mining community, provided by the efforts of the congregation. There is also an interesting cruciform brick font with a mosaic top and a cover with carved figures.
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