Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176885
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176885
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pontesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 43263 10133
Details
SJ 41 SW PONTESBURY C.P. CRUCKTON
1/176 Church of St Thomas -
- II
Parochial chapel, now redundant. 1840 by Edward Haycock. Coursed local limestone rubble, machine tile roofs. Plain lancet style; nave, chancel, south vestry, west porch and bellcote. Nave: buttressed in 4 bays with lean- to vestry in east bay of south side; windows all broad lancets; gabled west porch with gabled bellcote (housing single bell) above. Short chancel of one bay with broad lancet in east wall. Interior: retains its original open benches and west gallery supported on plain cast-iron columns; most of the other fittings are late C19/early C20; plain reading desk, stone pulpit with marble shafts and slender octagonal font all of c.1880. The base of the communion table is mid-C17; early C17 oak panelling in north and south walls added when chancel was re-modelled internally c.1929. Erected on a site given by Thomas Harries of Cruckton in 1838 and built at a cost of £949 (raised by public subscription), the chapel formerly served the second portion of Pontesbury parish. V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.290.
Listing NGR: SJ4326310133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259479
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1968), 290
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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