Description

CROOK AND WILLINGTON B 6299 (North side)
NZ 13 NE
Stanley
24/16 Church of St.Thomas

GV II

Parish church. 1879. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof
with red ridge tiles and stone gable copings. Nave with south-west tower and
south aisle, the westernmost bay a porch; chancel with north vestry. Geometrical
style. Steeply-gabled porch has chamfered and moulded open 2-centred arch
containing steps up to trefoil-headed door. Aisle windows paired under linked
drip-moulds; tall north windows; paired 2-light west windows under roundel; 2-
light chancel windows and large 3-light east window in stepped 5-arch arcade.
Tall round tower has stair slits in 2 lower stages and octagonal belfry has 4
stone-louvred openings under gabled drip-moulds; octagonal stone spire, the
faces ribbed, has stone and iron finial. Geometric tracery in windows, those in
north and south having flattened 2-centred heads under 2-centred drip-moulds;
the larger windows have 2-centred heads. Continuous sill string, stepped to
chancel windows, around tower and buttresses, those of nave and chancel east
walls diagonal. Foundation stone dated l875 in north-east buttress. Steeply-
pitched roofs have flat gable copings and stone cross finials.

Interior: painted plaster with ashlar arcade and dressings; boarded panelled
nave roof in 5 planes, chancel roof in 4, continuing to wall frieze panels.
3-bay arcade has double-chamfered 2-centred arches on round columns with moulded
capitals; easternmost capital continuous with chancel sill string which is
stepped to east window and forms drip-mould to large north organ arch. Foliage-
stopped drip-moulds. Tall chancel arch, with chamfer and roll-moulding, rests
on polished grey granite shafts with crocket capitals and stone corbels. Caen
stone pulpit has blind arcade with tracery; panel facing west filled with high-
relief vine carving; red marble shafts to arcade. Similar materials for
quatrefoil font. Reredos has wood arcade framing painted panels of Lord's
Prayer, Commandments and Creed. C19 and C20 glass includes south aisle windows
by Atkinson Bros. of Newcastle.

Listing NGR: NZ1588837996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26522615

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version