Church of St Thomas the Apostle
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241990
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas the Apostle
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241990
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas the Apostle
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE, CHURCH 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 THE APOSTLE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98186 88900
Details
SJ 98 NE MARPLE CHURCH ROAD (west side) Mellor
7/72 Church of St. Thomas 20.12.67 the Apostle
G.V. II
Church. Tower C15 on C12 foundations, otherwise rebuilt early C19. Coursed rubble tower otherwise watershot stone with ashlar dressings. Nave with west tower, porch and chancel (formerlywith 3-sided gallery). 4-bay nave with round-headed windows and 1-bay chancel with pointed windows all with impost blocks and keystones. Porch between bays 3 and 4 has a segmental-headed doorway, commemorative plaque of 1815, a round-headed window and coped gable with kneelers. Pointed-arch east window with keystone. 3-stage tower has C17 door surround within a C15 arch, diagonal weathered buttresses, quoins, a castellated parapet with enriched finials. C15 mullion and transom west window, 2- light belfry openings and clock faces. Interior: pointed tower arch. 3 box pews, Anglo-Saxon drum-shaped font with crude carvings of a man on horseback, early C14 pulpit carved out of a single piece of oak has traceried panels and was restored in C19. Stained glass late C19.
Listing NGR: SJ9818688900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441329
- 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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