Description

TQ 04 NW SHALFORD CP NEW ROAD

4/155 Chilworth
Church of St. Thomas

II

Formerly Greshambury Institute. Now church. 1896 by W.H. Seth-Smith.
Red brick with hipped concrete tile roofs, swept out to eaves. Wooden
lantern with ogee shaped lead dome and crowning crucifix. Square pavilion
with lower range to left and wing at right angles to rear. Two storeys
with battered corner buttresses and continuous leaded clerestory under
overhanging eaves with tiled pentice sills. Cambered head, 4-light leaded
casements to ground floor left and right, one 6-light window in lower range
to left facing street, two in left hand return front. Gabled porch to
centre with half glazed sides. Bargeboard, planked double door to front.
Louvred lantern with battering angle buttresses and small sphere finials
to corners.

Interior: painted brick walls with four ribs from corners rising to
meet in centre of roof. Altar recess to rear wall.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) page 155.

Listing NGR: TQ0213347089

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26280699

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)