Church of St Thomas

CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HIGH GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1150903
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Church of St Thomas
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HIGH GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1150903
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Church of St Thomas
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HIGH GREEN

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HIGH GREEN

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brompton
National Grid Reference:
SE 37375 96359

Details

SE 3696-3796 BROMPTON HIGH GREEN 12/16 Church of St Thomas 31.3.70 GV I

Church. C12, C14 and C15, restoration in 1868. Coursed squared stone and ashlar, graduated Welsh slate roofs. C12-C14 nave with north aisle, partly enclosed C15 south west tower to centre bay of nave, C14 chancel, C19 north vestry. South-west tower: 3 stages, offset diagonal buttresses to first stage. Plinth. Board south door in chamfered basket-arched surround with hoodmould and small niche above. Projection for staircase to east side. Chamfered band, second stage, clock faces to east and west sides, chamfered band. Chamfered, cusped 2-light flat-head belfry openings. Band, embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles to each corner. Pyramidal roof with flag pole. Nave: 3 bays, plinth, offset diagonal buttress to west, offset angle buttress to east. To left a 3-light reticulated traceried flat-headed window, to right similar window of 4 lights. Moulded copings to parapet. Stone copings, gable crosses. North aisle: similar windows to nave. Blocked chamfered pointed C13 door. Similar pointed 2-light window to west. Nave has large 4-light pointed reticulated traceried west window with hoodmould. Chancel: one bay. Offset diagonal buttress to east end. To south central priests' doorway in pointed chamfered surround. To left a small cusped 1-light pointed-arched window. To right a 2-light chamfered, flat-headed window, with Perpendicular tracery. Pointed east window of 3 lights with flowing tracery and hoodmould, Decorated in style. Plain chamfered parapet, stone coping. Gable cross. North vestry with 3-light arched east window. All windows C19. Interior: 4-bay C12 north arcade raised in C14, 2 circular piers with octagonal abaci, one with a waterleaf motif, C14 central pier octagonal with moulded cap, stepped round arches. Double-chamfered pointed chancel arch. Stained-glass west window by Kempe, after 1886. Sculpture: 3 good hogback tombstones, all with bears sitting up at the ends and facing one another, with Celtic strap motifs between. An Anglo-Danish cross shaft with head. Similar cross, C9 in the nave.

Listing NGR: SE3737496359

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
332379
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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