CHURCH OF ST THOMAS

CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, CHURCH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286823
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286823
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, CHURCH 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, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 40357 93184

Details

SK49NW ROTHERHAM CHURCH STREET (north side), Kimberworth 5/21 Church of St. Thomas II Church. 1842 by Matthew Habershon, chancel added 1882 (Pevsner, p285). Deeply-coursed,dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roofs. Orientated north- east/south-west, ritual orientation used here. West tower, 5-bay nave with lean-to south porch in angle with tower, narrower 2-bay chancel with gabled projection to south and later, hipped-roof, vestry to north. Gothic Revival, early work in Early English style. Tower : clasping buttresses to lower part flank 2-light, Y-tracery, west window. Slit windows and string course beneath clocks in quatrefoil ashlar panels. String course beneath 2-light, louvred belfry openings with another string course above peaked over openings. Quatrefoil-pierced parapet with 8 pinnacles. Nave chamfered plinth band, ashlar offset buttresses between bays. Lancets with C20 leaded lights in treble-chamfered surrounds. Moulded eaves band, ashlar gable parapets. Chancel : lower. 3-light east window with cusped and foiled lights, hoodmould with uncarved stops, gable copings with cross. Projection to south, in same style, has 2-light window; chancel window to its east has 2 trefoil-headed lights. N. Pevsner, WE, 2nd Ed, 1967.

Listing NGR: SK4035793184

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Legacy System number:: 335653
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 285

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.