Church of St Thomas

Church of St Thomas, Lowther Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257401
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: Church of St Thomas
Statutory Address:: Church of St Thomas, Lowther Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257401
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: Church of St Thomas
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Thomas, Lowther Street

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St Thomas, Lowther Street

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

District:: York (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 60485 52804

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 March 2022 to update text and reformat to current standards

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YORK LOWTHER STREET (North side) Church of St Thomas

GV II

Parish church. 1853-54. By George Fowler Jones.

MATERIALS: squared sandstone with tooled stone dressings and moulded plinth string; slate roofs with stone copings, crocket finials, vestry stack and lead cresting.

STYLE: Gothic Revival.

PLAN: two-bay chancel with north vestry; two-bay north and south transepts; three-bay nave and west bellcote.

EXTERIOR: gabled east end has three-light window with attenuated quatrefoils in the two-centred head. Transepts have two-light windows separated by central buttress, with multi-foiled circular light in gable apex: returns have single windows. Nave is buttressed with single light to each bay. Central bay of gabled west end projects slightly and supports gabled bellcote with crocketed gable cross. West doorway, flanked by one-light windows, is two-centred filleted moulded arch with attached jamb shafts and board double doors on elaborate scrolled hinges. Above, west window of two trefoiled lights with attenuated quatrefoil in two-centred head is set back over weathered tabling. West door and window have hoodmoulds with foliate stops. In gable apex is sunk quatrefoil set in chamfered circular surround. Gabled bellcote is of paired trefoil headed lights. Building is buttressed diagonally by three-stage squat buttresses. Windows are trefoil headed diamond latticed lancets in quoined and chamfered surrounds with sloped sills. Moulded sillstring, stopped with foliate boss on each side of west door, encircles building.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE6048552804

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Legacy System number:: 463938
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.