Church of St Thomas Including Wall, Gates and Gateway
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS INCLUDING WALL, GATES AND GATEWAY, ST THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202562
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas Including Wall, Gates and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS INCLUDING WALL, GATES AND GATEWAY, ST THOMAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202562
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas Including Wall, Gates and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS INCLUDING WALL, GATES AND GATEWAY, ST THOMAS STREET
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 INCLUDING WALL, GATES AND GATEWAY, ST THOMAS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59118 72768
Details
BRISTOL
ST5972 ST THOMAS STREET 901-1/42/287 (West side) 08/01/59 Church of St Thomas including wall, gates and gateway (Formerly Listed as: ST THOMAS STREET Church of St Thomas)
II*
Church. C14 tower, nave rebuilt 1791-3 by James Allen. Bath stone ashlar and render, roof not visible. Aisled nave and NW tower. Neoclassical style with a Perpendicular Gothic tower. Chancel gable on a high plinth, with paired Ionic pilasters to an entablature broken by a semicircular archivolt containing a spoked 6-light window, enlarged from the original semicircular one in 1888. Above it is a cherub on folded wings and swag, with panels on either side, and in the pediment above. Chapel either side, that to the S has an Ionic pediment and pilasters around a recessed round-arched doorway, with a panelled soffit to the arch. Rendered 6-bay N aisle of semicircular-arched windows above a plat band, with a gable-end parapet ramped up to the pediment at either end. Similar S aisle, with a window in the W end. Pedimented W gable, above a rendered porch with a semicircular-arched doorway with imposts, a carved cherub key and a batswing fanlight and a cornice, and a window with plain impost and key above. 3-stage tower: tall, 3-light W window, and similar 2-light windows to the second stage and the belfry; clasping pilasters with buttresses, panelled at the belfry with ogee heads and pinnacles below the parapet; an octagonal stair turret on the SW corner, ending with a spirelet with paired blind trefoil panels and a crocketed top; an open parapet, with crocketed pinnacles inside the corners. INTERIOR: being repaired after a fire at the time of survey. Reported to include a nave of 5 bays on square columns with a tunnel vault, and a good W gallery on Roman Doric columns; fine tripartite reredos of 1716 with Corinthian columns. FITTINGS: font by Wood, with a Greek cross plan and shallow fluted bowl, converted to a lectern. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: between the tower and the S aisle is a curved, ramped wall with square, chamfered piers and wrought-iron gates, and to the N of the chancel is a round-arched gateway and gate. HISTORICAL NOTE: the original fine late Gothic church was demolished in 1791; the tower was intended to be modernised to Allen's design, but the work was never carried out. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 185; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 84; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 410).
Listing NGR: ST5911872768
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380515
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 410
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 185
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 884
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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