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
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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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
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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