Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, MARSH HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135375
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, MARSH HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135375
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, MARSH HALL LANE
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, MARSH HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkburton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 16607 10760
Details
SE 11 SE MARSH HALL LANE Thurstonland 5/75 Church of St. Thomas
G.V. II
Gothic Revival church. 1870. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roof with stone gutter on moulded brackets. Five-bay offset-buttressed nave with paired, cusped, arched lights. Two-bay chancel with cusped single light windows with trefoil in head East window is 4-light with two 5-foils and one 6-foil in head. West window consists of 2 pairs of slender cusped lancets, each with quatrefoil in circle to head. Large quatrefoil in circle to apex. 3-tier tower on south side at east end of nave, with stair turret and splay-footed stone spire with lucarnes which have 5-foil in head. Archivolted paired, cusped lights to 2nd tier. Large 2-light bell- chamber openings, louvred and with circle in head. Doorway on south side with moulded arched head and figure in canopied niche over. Vestry wing on north side.
Interior: Arched braced hammer beam roof. Square font, 1871 with 4 marble colonnettes on clustered base.
Listing NGR: SE1660710760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341190
- 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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