Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HELMSHORE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072810
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HELMSHORE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072810
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HELMSHORE ROAD
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, HELMSHORE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Rossendale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 78287 21244
Details
SD 72 SE HASLINGDEN HELMSHORE ROAD
5/99 Church of St. Thomas - - II
Church, 1850-51, by E.H. Shellard. Rock-faced sandstone, 2-span slate roof. West tower with broach spire, nave and chancel, with north aisle under separate roof. Decorated style, with reticulated tracery. Tower of 3 unequal stages with angle buttresses to the high 1st stage, has moulded arched west doorway with roll-moulded surround carried up from very low string course, a small lancet high above the door, similar lancets to the 2nd stage, 2-light belfry louvres, and a broach spire with 2-light lucarnes in the cardinal sides (modern clock faces below these). Five-bay nave with one buttress, gabled porch to 2nd bay, 2-light traceried windows; matching north aisle has 2-light west window and 3-light east window; chancel has larger 3-light window (all these with reticulated tracery). Interior: 5-bay aisle arcade of octagonal columns and double-chamfered arches with roll-moulding carried over the heads and linked by figured stops; arch-braced roof, the wall-posts carried on corbels, some carved; elaborate carved wooden chancel screen and canopied choir stalls. Commissioners' church, cost £2,500 (Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SD7828721244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185677
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
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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