Description

BOSTON

TF34SW LONDON ROAD
716-1/2/86 (West side)
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS

II

Parish Church. 1911 by Temple Moore and some internal works of
1939. Porch of 1956. Red brick, cement render, ashlar
dressings, plain tile roof.
PLAN: nave and aisles, all 3 separately roofed, south porch,
south meeting room.
EXTERIOR: west end of 3 gables, the nave having a tall 3-light
window with cross mullions and hood. To either side the gables
have high level 3-light windows with sill band and hood. In
the apex is a vent. On the north gable a bellcote on a
buttress with pent canopy with wooden shingle cladding.
The north aisle has a plinth and 3 stepped buttresses. Windows
of 2, 3, and 4 lights, with flat heads and hoods, with plain
pairs of vents beneath. At the east end of the aisle is a
2-light pointed window with flowing tracery.
The chancel on the north side has a 5-light window. At low
level is the foundation stone, recording the building of the
chancel in 1911. The east window is pointed of 3-lights with
reticulated tracery.
The east end of the south aisle has a 3-light flat-headed
window at low level, and a 2-light pointed window above. On
the south side the vestry with meeting room above has two
3-light windows, one above the other, and the projecting
gabled bay which contains the staircase has at high level
2-light window with cusped heads.
The south side of the nave has a recessed doorway with a
lean-to roof forming a porch with an adjacent brick stack. The
tympanum is half-timbered and the porch opening has an ogee
timber head and a carving of St Christopher and child in a
small brattished gabled canopy. The south side has 3 windows
of 2, 3, and 4 lights as the north. The porch is in brick,
gabled, with battered side buttresses. It contains in a niche
over the door a stone carved figure of St Thomas kneeling to
the risen Christ, 1956 by Philip Pape.
INTERIOR: 3-bay nave arcades with octagonal piers and double
chamfered pointed arches. A shield to a saint on each pier.
Steeply pointed plain arch at west end to form western bay.
Barrel vaulted planked roof, painted with panels at eastern
ends.
Simple Arts and Crafts fittings including contemporary solid
oak pews, choir stalls, reader's desk, chancel screen with
carved lights and moulded canopy, north chapel screen,
communion rail with quatrefoils and pulpit dated 1912. Rood
with painted tympanum dated 1939. Small C19 font from original
church and carved octagonal C19 font from the redundant parish
church of Wispington.
HISTORY: the earlier iron church was built in 1885 and
demolished in 1911.

Listing NGR: TF3245642683

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668370

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990