Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1286823
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1286823
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, CHURCH STREET
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
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 335653
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 285
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