[2] Designed by the Arts and Crafts architect John Coates Carter (working with J. P. Seddon[2]), St Paul's has been described as being the "finest" of his surviving early churches.

[4] In April 2015 a fundraising campaign was launched in the hope of restoring a stained glass window installed in the church in 1920 to commemorate the First World War.

[5] The window, portraying battle scenes and religious imagery, was to be retained as part of the building's partial conversion to housing.

[8][9] In 2008, facing repair costs of £1 million and with a congregation much smaller than in its heyday, St Paul's asked the Church of Wales for permission to sell the old building.

[11] However, in early 2016 with no successful sale taking place, the church instead planned to work with Wales and West Housing to convert part of the building into apartments.

Extensive groundwork has taken place in order to relay a floor, after which the roof and windows will be repaired to make the building watertight.