Church of St Thomas of Canterbury

CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, WEST HILL SW18

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1065467
Date first listed:
07-Apr-1983
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, WEST HILL SW18
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Date:
2006-02-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1065467
Date first listed:
07-Apr-1983
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, WEST HILL SW18

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, WEST HILL SW18

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Wandsworth (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 25076 74656

Details

WEST HILL SW1 3 1. 5033 Church of St Thomas of Canterbury TQ 2574 12/1 II 2. Opened 1895. Edward Goldie. Perpendicular style in red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. [West front] Moulded basket-arch door surround with spirelets and crockets, framing paired doors each side of a polygonal pier with figure of St Thomas. Round-arched West window of 14th Century tracery. Cusped niches with figures of Virgin and adoring angels in gable. North-West tower with battlemented parapet and polygonal staircase buttress at north-west angle. Recessed battlemented upper tower with chamfered angles. [South elevation] Gabled porch framing moulded basket arch. Three-bay aisle, tall 2-storey transept and 3-bay chancel. [Interior] Octagonal stone piers to barrel-vaulted nave. Chancel arch of clustered piers. Chancel rib-vaulted with three 14th Century-type windows.

Listing NGR: TQ2507674656

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207181
Legacy System:
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