Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, NORTHWICK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312454
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, NORTHWICK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312454
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, NORTHWICK ROAD
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, NORTHWICK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pilning and Severn Beach
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5597186750
Details
ST 58 NE
7/235
PILNING AND SEVERN BEACH
NORTHWICK ROAD (north side)
Northwick
Church of St. Thomas
G.V.
II
Church tower. 1842-3 by John Hicks. Rubble with stone dressings. Square
plan, neo-Romanesque style. 3-stage tower has west door with paired jamb-
shafts with scalloped capitals, 2-light window above, hood mould with wolf-head
stops and relieving arch, single light at 2nd stage, 3rd stage has paired window
with bell louvres to each side; gabled parapet and coping on Lombard frieze
with animal masks as corbels, cross slit in each gable, cockerel weathervane;
plinth, weathered clasping buttresses and strings. East elevation has blocked
door and large upper window, both round-headed with relieving arch, roof line of
former nave visible, part of wall of nave remaining with jamb shafts of a
window, mask stop to hood mould, kneeler carved as grotesque animal to north.
Outline of nave, transepts and chancel visible on ground. (Sources:
Incorporated Church Building Society Records 1842-3 and Verey, D. : Buildings of
England, Gloucestershire : The Vale and The Forest of Dean. 1970).
Listing NGR: ST5597186750
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 35340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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