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Latitude: 53.6756 / 53°40'32"N
Longitude: -1.3562 / 1°21'22"W
OS Eastings: 442629
OS Northings: 420091
OS Grid: SE426200
Mapcode National: GBR LTZY.64
Mapcode Global: WHDC6.4WG3
Plus Code: 9C5WMJGV+6G
Entry Name: Church of St Thomas
Listing Date: 13 March 1964
Last Amended: 9 October 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1252763
English Heritage Legacy ID: 435865
ID on this website: 101252763
Location: Featherstone, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF7
County: Wakefield
Civil Parish: Featherstone
Built-Up Area: Featherstone
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Purston with South Featherstone St Thomas
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
FEATHERSTONE VICTORIA STREET
SE 42 SW
(south side)
3/12 Church of St. Thomas
13.3.64 (formerly listed as
Purston Parish Church)
- II
Church. 1876-78. Rockfaced sandstone, green slate roof with red cockscomb
ridging tiles. Early English style. Nave with north and south aisles and
south porch and chancel. Tall 4-bay nave under steeply-pitched roof has
angle buttresses and pilasters, 4 clerestorey windows of large quatrefoils
with short coupled lancets beneath them; buttressed aisle has gabled porch to
1st bay with 2-centred arched outer doorway chamfered in 3 orders, lancet
windows in the other bays. West gable has 3 lancets with linked hoodmoulds,
and a large "rose" window above, formed by a central roundel with a
rectilinear and curved tracery making a surround of 8 foils. Three-bay
chancel has lancet windows, and east window of 3 stepped lancets in a
recessed arch. Steeply-pitched roofs with gable copings and apex crosses.
Interior: 4-bay aisle arcades of double-chamfered arches springing from
exceptionally wide square capitals of roughly-hewn shallow blocks carried on
relatively slim columns, with similarly hewn black stops to the hoodmoulds.
Chancel arch with shafts rising from similarly roughly hewn figured corbels.
(This decorative treatment perhaps a deliberate aesthetic reflection of the
mining community which the church served).
Listing NGR: SE4262920091
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