Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket
PARISH CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, NORTHAW ROAD WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348170
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, NORTHAW ROAD WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348170
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, NORTHAW ROAD WEST
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, NORTHAW ROAD WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Northaw and Cuffley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27922 02312
Details
Northaw TL 20 SE NORTHAW AND NORTHAW ROAD WEST CUFFLEY
12/243 Parish Church of St Thomas a Becket -
GV II*
Church. 1881, by C Kirk and Son of Sleaford. Replacing church of 1809. N aisle added 1887, choir and vestry 1893. Rock cut stone. Slate roof. Lincolnshire Decorated style. Tall SW tower in 5 stages. Clasp buttresses with crocketed finials. Cusped parapet. 3-light ground floor windows. Clock on W face. 2- light belfry windows. Nave has 5-light W window with flowing tracery. Door in projecting gabled surround. N nave aisle has 5 eaves gables over 3-light windows, the porch gable with curved triangular traceried window. 5-light E window with flowing tracery. S aisle has small 2-light windows and an eaves corbel table. Exceptionally complete interior with elaborate wall paintings and fittings. 5-bay nave with piers and hood moulds to arches. Scissor brace roof. Similar roof to choir, painted 1893. 2-arch opening to former vestry on N and chancel chapel on S, the arches with cinguefoiled heads. Sedilia of 3 trefoiled arches. Piscina with foliage-carved bowl. Perpendicular style chancel arch and rood given 1913. Polygonal stone pulpit with richly crocketed gabled sides, stone figures at the angles. Nave and chancel walls with wall paintings depicting New Testament scenes and foliage patterns. Complete original stained glass. East window signed Ward Hughes 1882. West window Ward & Hughes 1887. 3 north aisle windows c.1895 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. (Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL2792202312
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158507
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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