Heights Chapel, St Thomas Old Church
HEIGHTS CHAPEL, ST THOMAS OLD CHURCH, BROAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356677
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Heights Chapel, St Thomas Old Church
- Statutory Address:
- HEIGHTS CHAPEL, ST THOMAS OLD CHURCH, BROAD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356677
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Heights Chapel, St Thomas Old Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEIGHTS CHAPEL, ST THOMAS OLD CHURCH, BROAD LANE
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:
- 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.
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