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: CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
List entry Number: 1297652
Location
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, ST THOMAS ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Lancashire | Fylde | District Authority | Saint Anne's on the Sea |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 15-Feb-1993
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 385306
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
LYTHAM ST ANNES
SD32NW ST THOMAS ROAD, St Annes
621-1/2/118 (North East side)
Church of St Thomas
GV II
Church. 1899-1905, by Austin and Paley.
Blood red Accrington brick in English garden wall bond (3+1),
with sandstone dressings and red tile roofs.
Perpendicular style.
Nave with north and south aisles, full-height chancel with
north transept, and detached north-west tower linked to the
aisle by a short passage.
The 6-bay nave has large 4-light traceried clerestory windows
with transoms to the centre lights, and at the west end a
full-height projected bay with canted corners, a large
segmental-pointed 6-light west window with a transom and
tracery, tall panels of blind tracery in the canted corners,
and a stone parapet ramped up in the centre over a blind
oculus with mouchette tracery; and in the gable above, a small
niche and an apex cross.
The south aisle has 4 pairs of square-headed windows with
tracery, a canted porch to the 6th bay, and attached to the
1st bay a gabled baptistery which is banded and has a niche
with a statue and a checker-board patterned parapet.
The chancel has an aisle like that of the nave, above this 3
square-headed 2-light windows with cinquefoil lights, a brick
parapet, and a large 5-light traceried east window with
brattished transom.
The tall square tower has diagonal buttresses with offsets, an
extruded stair-turret on the east side, stone bands, an arched
west doorway, and a set-back belfry stage clasped by the
buttresses, with blind-arcading, louvred 3-light windows, and
a parapet with coupled crocketed corner pinnacles.
INTERIOR: vaulted passage between tower and aisle; 6-bay aisle
arcades of octagonal columns with moulded caps and 2-centred
double-chamfered arches; large chancel arch in matching style;
brick walls; king-post roof trusses with 2 collars, the lower
with arch-bracing.
Listing NGR: SD3253828381
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National Grid Reference: SD 32538 28381
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