Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, VICTORIA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252763
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, VICTORIA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252763
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, VICTORIA 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, VICTORIA STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Featherstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 42629 20091
Details
FEATHERSTONE VICTORIA STREET SE 42 SW (south side) 3/12 Church of St. Thomas 13.3.64 (formerly listed as Purston Parish Church) - II Church. 1876-78. Rockfaced sandstone, green slate roof with red cockscomb ridging tiles. Early English style. Nave with north and south aisles and south porch and chancel. Tall 4-bay nave under steeply-pitched roof has angle buttresses and pilasters, 4 clerestorey windows of large quatrefoils with short coupled lancets beneath them; buttressed aisle has gabled porch to 1st bay with 2-centred arched outer doorway chamfered in 3 orders, lancet windows in the other bays. West gable has 3 lancets with linked hoodmoulds, and a large "rose" window above, formed by a central roundel with a rectilinear and curved tracery making a surround of 8 foils. Three-bay chancel has lancet windows, and east window of 3 stepped lancets in a recessed arch. Steeply-pitched roofs with gable copings and apex crosses. Interior: 4-bay aisle arcades of double-chamfered arches springing from exceptionally wide square capitals of roughly-hewn shallow blocks carried on relatively slim columns, with similarly hewn black stops to the hoodmoulds. Chancel arch with shafts rising from similarly roughly hewn figured corbels. (This decorative treatment perhaps a deliberate aesthetic reflection of the mining community which the church served).
Listing NGR: SE4262920091
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435865
- 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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