Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, WEST HILL SW18
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065467
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, WEST HILL SW18
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- 2006-02-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/15127/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065467
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, WEST HILL SW18
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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207181
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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