Church of St Thomas, Kirkburton
Description: Church of St Thomas
Grade: II
Date Listed: 16 May 1984
English Heritage Building ID: 341190
OS Grid Reference: SE1660710760
OS Grid Coordinates: 416607, 410760
Latitude/Longitude: 53.5932, -1.7506
Location: 15 Marsh Hall Lane, Kirkburton, Kirklees HD4 6XD
Locality: Kirkburton
Local Authority: Kirklees
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: HD4 6XD
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Listing Text
SE 11 SE MARSH HALL LANE
Thurstonland
5/75
Church of St. Thomas
G.V. II
Gothic Revival church. 1870. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar
dressings. Pitched slate roof with stone gutter on moulded brackets.
Five-bay offset-buttressed nave with paired, cusped, arched lights.
Two-bay chancel with cusped single light windows with trefoil in head
East window is 4-light with two 5-foils and one 6-foil in head. West
window consists of 2 pairs of slender cusped lancets, each with
quatrefoil in circle to head. Large quatrefoil in circle to apex.
3-tier tower on south side at east end of nave, with stair turret and
splay-footed stone spire with lucarnes which have 5-foil in head.
Archivolted paired, cusped lights to 2nd tier. Large 2-light bell-
chamber openings, louvred and with circle in head. Doorway on south
side with moulded arched head and figure in canopied niche over.
Vestry wing on north side.
Interior: Arched braced hammer beam roof. Square font, 1871 with
4 marble colonnettes on clustered base.
Listing NGR: SE1660710760
Source: English Heritage
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