Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, CRICKET PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056183
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, CRICKET PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1056183
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, CRICKET PARK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, CRICKET PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cricket St. Thomas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37289 08584
Details
CRICKET ST THOMAS CP ST30NE CRICKET PARK 4/11 Church of St Thomas 4.2.58 GV II* Anglican parish church. C14 origins, but almost totally rebuilt c1868 for the second Lord Bridport. Knapped and squared flint, with Ham stone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs with stone slab base courses between stepped coped gables with cross finials. Three-unit plan of single-bay chancel, 2-bay nave and south transept, with south-east vestry and west porch and short west tower with spirelet. Chancel has plinth, angled corner buttresses, eaves course; east window a 3-liqht, C14 style traceried, in hollowed recess with plain stopped label; no window on north side. Vestry has flat roof behind moulded plain parapet, with C14 style 2-light windows in south and east walls. South transept has angled corner buttresses, a 3-light south window matching that of chancel and a small lancet in gable over and a single-light window in the west wall. Nave has angled corner buttresses, one 3-light window in south wall and 2 in north, and one in the west gable set over the porch; west porch has angled corner buttresses, 4-centre outer and inner arches, and a small cusped lancet in gable, small 2-light side windows. Tower its on a corbel-table of the west nave gable, and has an offset plinth and offset angled pilasters, with minature gables to each face and small steeplet terminating in a windvane, Interior apparently totally C19, with arched timber rib-and-panel ceilings; the chancel and south sanctuary (transept) arches in C15 style and could incorporate work of that date. Late C19 panelled reredos; the communion rail, priest desk, pulpit, pews all of c1868, the font in timber with openwork timber cover, first used in 1881. Many monuments to the Nelson (Lord bronte) family and Hood (Lord Bridport) family; particularly fine is that on chancel south wall commemorating Alexander Hood, died 1814, designed and signed by J Soane, Archt, with black marble base topped by a white marble monument with typical Soanian pediment on Ionic columns framing the memorial plaque; opposite on north wall a monument of similar character but of lesser design, unsigned, to the Rev<. William Earl Nelson, died 1835. Mounted on the north nave wall is a fragment of the alter cloth used in the Coronation Service of Queen Elizabeth II. (The grading of this church solely on the strength of the Soane Monument). (VCH Somerset Vol IV, 1978, pp140-141; Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST3728908584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262139
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 140-141
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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