HEIGHTS CHAPEL, ST THOMAS OLD CHURCH
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356677
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Jul-1986
- Statutory Address:
- HEIGHTS CHAPEL, ST THOMAS OLD CHURCH, BROAD LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- HEIGHTS CHAPEL, ST THOMAS OLD CHURCH, BROAD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 98212 09061
Details
SADDLEWORTH BROAD LANE
SD 90 NE (north-west
side)
3/20 Heights Chapel,
St. Thomas Old
Church
(formerly listed
as Church of
19/6/67 St. Thomas)
- II*
Church, now redundant. 1765 on west door lintels. Hammer-
dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. 3-
sided gallery plan with small chancel and later vestry wing.
4 x 2 bays. Quoins. The west has twin doors with
architraves, dated lintels, and cornices, on either side of
a semi-circular-headed window with Y-tracery, impost
capitals and keystone. A continuous dripmould is stepped
above it. 2 similar windows on the first floor under one
hoodmould. Coped gable and C19 bell-cote. The side
elevations have similar windows on two tiers and are mostly
blocked. Chancel has canted sides, a lean-to roof and
Venetian east window. Vestry wing repeats a similar Venetian
window. Interior: galleries on Tuscan columns with C19
timber parapet walls. Tie-beam roof trusses (probably C19)
have queen posts and arched struts: all chamfered and
decoratively painted. Stencilled paintwork around chancel.
Wall plaque memorials to the Buckley family.
Listing NGR: SD9821209061
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212027
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing