CHURCH OF ST THOMAS

CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, ST THOMAS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297652
Date first listed:: 15-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, ST THOMAS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297652
Date first listed:: 15-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, ST THOMAS ROAD

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, ST THOMAS ROAD

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Fylde (District Authority)
Parish:: Saint Anne's on the Sea
National Grid Reference:: SD 32538 28381

Details

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD32NW ST THOMAS ROAD, St Annes 621-1/2/118 (North East side) Church of St Thomas

GV II

Church. 1899-1905, by Austin and Paley. Blood red Accrington brick in English garden wall bond (3+1), with sandstone dressings and red tile roofs. Perpendicular style. Nave with north and south aisles, full-height chancel with north transept, and detached north-west tower linked to the aisle by a short passage. The 6-bay nave has large 4-light traceried clerestory windows with transoms to the centre lights, and at the west end a full-height projected bay with canted corners, a large segmental-pointed 6-light west window with a transom and tracery, tall panels of blind tracery in the canted corners, and a stone parapet ramped up in the centre over a blind oculus with mouchette tracery; and in the gable above, a small niche and an apex cross. The south aisle has 4 pairs of square-headed windows with tracery, a canted porch to the 6th bay, and attached to the 1st bay a gabled baptistery which is banded and has a niche with a statue and a checker-board patterned parapet. The chancel has an aisle like that of the nave, above this 3 square-headed 2-light windows with cinquefoil lights, a brick parapet, and a large 5-light traceried east window with brattished transom. The tall square tower has diagonal buttresses with offsets, an extruded stair-turret on the east side, stone bands, an arched west doorway, and a set-back belfry stage clasped by the buttresses, with blind-arcading, louvred 3-light windows, and a parapet with coupled crocketed corner pinnacles. INTERIOR: vaulted passage between tower and aisle; 6-bay aisle arcades of octagonal columns with moulded caps and 2-centred double-chamfered arches; large chancel arch in matching style; brick walls; king-post roof trusses with 2 collars, the lower with arch-bracing.

Listing NGR: SD3253828381

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Legacy System number:: 385306
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.