CHURCH OF ST THOMAS

CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, FROME ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364079
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, FROME ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364079
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, FROME ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, FROME ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Southwick
National Grid Reference:: ST 83747 55249

Details

ST 85 NW SOUTHWICK FROME ROAD (south side)

6/158 Church of St Thomas

GV II

Anglican parish church. 1899-1904 by C.E. Ponting. Rock-faced limestone, tiled roof. Plan: north west tower, aisleless nave, chancel with north organ chamber, south west vestry. Free gothic. Multi-chamfered pointed doorway on west side of 2-stage tower, image niche over, north side has 2 cusped lancets within pointed panel, pair of arrowloops over, offset bellstage has pair of large louvred lancets to each side, moulded string course with gargoyles to parapet with corner turrets, oak-shingled fleche, 1903 dated foundation stone on north west corner. North side of nave has two 3-light mullioned windows with cusped ogee lights to right, gable to left with two 2-light plate tracery windows, projection for organ chamber to left has battered corners, arrow loops. Chancel has gableted buttresses, one cusped lancet to north side, 4-light free gothic east window, south side has three cusped lancets. South side of nave has three 2-light mullioned windows with cusped ogee lights, gable with two 2-light plate tracery windows to right, large ashlar gableted buttress to east corner. Interior: Groin-vaulted porch at base of tower with circular bell opening. Nave has 5-bay roof with deep arch-braced collar trusses, exposed rafters, rendered walls. Double chamfered chancel arch with Arts and Crafts open traceried wooden screen, chancel has barrel-vaulted ceiling with ribbed panels, piscina set into south east windowsill, organ chamber on north side. Fittings: octagonal limestone font with C17-style strapwork cover, said to be from Chilton Foliat. Plain polygonal wooden pulpit. Good unsigned stained glass in east window. Immersion baptistry at west end. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST8374755249

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 314604
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.