St Thomas' Church, Lancaster

St Thomas' Church, Lancaster
St Thomas' Church, Lancaster
St Thomas' Church, Lancaster is located in Lancashire
St Thomas' Church, Lancaster
Location in Lancashire
Coordinates: 54°02′46″N 2°47′58″W / 54.0461°N 2.7994°W / 54.0461; -2.7994
OS grid reference SD 477 614
Location Marton Street, Lancaster, Lancashire
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Churchmanship Evangelical
Weekly attendance 200
Website St Thomas, Lancaster
History
Founded 3 March 1840
Dedication St Thomas
Consecrated 14 June 1841
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 13 March 1995
Architect(s) Edmund Sharpe,
E. G. Paley
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 1840
Completed 1853
Specifications
Spire height 120 feet (36.6 m)
Materials Sandstone, slate roofs
Administration
Parish St Thomas, Lancaster
Deanery Lancaster
Archdeaconry Lancaster
Diocese Blackburn
Province York
Clergy
Vicar(s) Revd. Jonathan Scamman
Curate(s) Revd. Saju Muthalaly
Laity
Reader Cathleen Dawson
Director of music Martin Walmsley
Churchwarden(s) Philip Hendry,
Sandra Lane-Dixon
Parish administrator David Cumming

St Thomas' Church, Lancaster is in Marton Street, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Lancaster, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]

Contents

History

St Thomas' was built between 1840 and 1841 to a design by the local architect Edmund Sharpe.[3] One of the subscribers to the church was Queen Victoria who, as Duchess of Lancaster, contributed £150 (£15,400 as of 2011).[4] The foundation stone was laid on 3 March 1840, the church opened for worship on 14 April 1841, and it was consecrated on 14 June by Rt Revd John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester.[5] In 1852–53 Sharpe's successor, E. G. Paley added the northeast steeple and the chancel in a similar architectural style.[3]

Architecture

Exterior

The church is constructed in sandstone ashlar with slate roofs in Early English style. Its plan consists of a six-bay nave with north and south aisles under three gabled roofs; the nave is extended one bay to the west to form a narthex. At the east end is a two-bay chancel with a steeple in the angle between the north aisle and the chancel. The lower part of the steeple has two square stages, with buttresses and a stair turret. Above the level of the aisle it becomes octagonal with louvred bell openings. The spire is also octagonal, with two tiers of lucarnes, a finial and an iron cross. A plain parapet runs along the tops of the eaves and gables. In the west front are five tall stepped lancet windows under which is a triple doorway. On each side of the front are buttresses that rise up to turrets with finials. There are more lancet windows around the church, with a triple lancet at the east end.[2]

Interior

Inside the church are galleries on three sides supported by cast iron columns.[2] A brass dated 1881 was produced by Shrigley and Hunt. The arms of Queen Victoria are on the west gallery.[3] According to the authors of the Buildings of England series, the church has "a grand approach up steps with imposing gatepiers".[3] The three-manual organ was built in 1852 by John Banfield, rebuilt in the 1880s by Richard Tubbs and, between 1920 and 1940, was rebuilt again and moved to its present position at the northeast of the nave by Jardine and Company.[6]

See also

  • List of architectural works by Edmund Sharpe
  • List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley

References

  1. ^ Lancaster, St Thomas, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/lancaster-st-thomas/, retrieved 31 March 2010 
  2. ^ a b c "Church of St Thomas, Lancaster", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1195066, retrieved 17 May 2011 
  3. ^ a b c d Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 372, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9 
  4. ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
  5. ^ Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, pp. 171–172 
  6. ^ Lancashire, Lancaster, St. Thomas, Penny Street (N10686), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N10686, retrieved 28 July 2011 

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