HEIGHTS CHAPEL, ST THOMAS OLD CHURCH
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: HEIGHTS CHAPEL, ST THOMAS OLD CHURCH
List entry Number: 1356677
Location
HEIGHTS CHAPEL, ST THOMAS OLD CHURCH, BROAD LANE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Oldham
District Type: Metropolitan Authority
Parish: Saddleworth
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 19-Jun-1967
Date of most recent amendment: 03-Jul-1986
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 212027
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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
Selected Sources
National Grid Reference: SD 98212 09061
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