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Latitude: 54.7318 / 54°43'54"N
Longitude: -1.8835 / 1°53'0"W
OS Eastings: 407599
OS Northings: 537434
OS Grid: NZ075374
Mapcode National: GBR HF9Q.0K
Mapcode Global: WHC4S.1BCB
Plus Code: 9C6WP4J8+PH
Entry Name: Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
Listing Date: 5 June 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1233307
English Heritage Legacy ID: 408788
ID on this website: 101233307
Location: St Thomas's Roman Catholic Church, Wolsingham, County Durham, DL13
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Wolsingham
Built-Up Area: Wolsingham
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Wolsingham
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Church building
WOLSINGHAM RECTORY LANE
NZ 0737
(North side)
Wolsingham
39/392 Church of St. Thomas
of Canterbury
GV II
R.C. parish church. 1854 by Joseph Hansom. Coursed squared sandstone with
ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings. Decorated
style. 6-bay nave with north aisle; south aisle and first stage of unfinished
south-west tower; 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Boarded double door in second
bay of south aisle in roll-moulded 2-centred arch; massive buttresses and
chamfered plinth to first stage of tower in first bay. 2-light aisle windows,
in bays defined by buttresses; 2-light chancel windows, 5-light east window; 4-
light west window flanked by 3-light windows in aisle and tower under pent roofs;
Decorated tracery of varied patterns. Small trefoil in west gable peak and
cinquefoil in east, under steeply-pitched roofs with elaborate stone cross
finials. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar arcades; scissor-truss nave
roof and panelled keeled chancel roof. Arcades, of 6 arches on north and 4 on
south, have chamfered 2-centred arches on octagonal columns and cushion-moulded
capitals. Very high chancel arch in similar style. Cusped 2-centred vestry
door. Plain 2-centred tower arches on east and north. Late C19 glass in south
aisle east window; earlier glass in east window.
Listing NGR: NZ0759937434
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