Description

ST 58 NE PILNING AND SEVERN NORTHWICK ROAD (north side)
BEACH Northwick
7/235
Church of St. Thomas
G.V.
II

Church tower. 1842-3 by John Hicks. Rubble with stone dressings. Square
plan, neo-Romanesque style. 3-stage tower has west door with paired jamb-
shafts with scalloped capitals, 2-light window above, hood mould with wolf-head
stops and relieving arch, single light at 2nd stage, 3rd stage has paired window
with bell louvres to each side; gabled parapet and coping on Lombard frieze
with animal masks as corbels, cross slit in each gable, cockerel weathervane;
plinth, weathered clasping buttresses and strings. East elevation has blocked
door and large upper window, both round-headed with relieving arch, roof line of
former nave visible, part of wall of nave remaining with jamb shafts of a
window, mask stop to hood mould, kneeler carved as grotesque animal to north.
Outline of nave, transepts and chancel visible on ground. (Sources:
Incorporated Church Building Society Records 1842-3 and Verey, D. : Buildings of
England, Gloucestershire : The Vale and The Forest of Dean. 1970).

Listing NGR: ST5599186750

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26598950

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)