Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, GROSVENOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134644
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, GROSVENOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134644
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, GROSVENOR 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, GROSVENOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 24741 24596
Details
SE 22 SW BATLEY MB GROSVENOR ROAD BATLEY
4/17 Church of St Thomas
II
Gothic Revival Church in Early English style. 1867-8 by Walter Hanstock. Slightly pitched faced stone with quoins and ashlar dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof. 5 bay nave with lean-to buttressed aisles. 3 bay chancel with vestry wing on north side. 3 tier tower in south west corner, with slender stone spire. Paired stained glass lancets, slightly cusped to aisles, and similar, smaller lights to clerestory. Those to aisles have hood moulds with figure head and foliated stops. 2-light stained glass chancel windows with simple bar tracery. 5-light cusped geometric east window with sexfoil in head.
3-tier tower has reducing angle buttresses with off-sets. Paired louvred openings to bell chamber, with heavily moulded arches on round colonnettes with foliated capitals, and sexfoil in heads. Perforated parapet with octagonal pinnacles, and gargoyles. Blind oculus to each 2nd tier face, presumably for clock. Entrance on south side with heavily moulded arch on round colonnettes with foliated capitals. Similar entrance at west end of nave with 4-light geometrical window over.
Interior: North and South arcades with double chamfered arches on columns with foliated capitals. Tall chancel arch on engaged colonnettes with richly carved capitals, supported on fluted tapering corbels. Hammer beam roof. Carved stone reredos. Octagonal marble font.
Listing NGR: SE2474124596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340922
- 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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